As I've progressed along this journey, I've read a lot of books on the subject of plant-based diets. They have all been informative and have made compelling arguments, but only one made me cross the line from vegetarian to vegan. That book is Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.
www.eatinganimals.com
Safran Foer is typically a fiction writer so his style for this book is quite different than any of the others I have read about being vegetarian. He uses the facts, and even (pork, beef, dairy) industry data to make his claim for being vegan, yet he never comes right out and says "You need to adopt this lifestyle." The research speaks for itself. He even admits in the book that he can't seriously argue that eating vegan necessarily tastes better than the alternative and that the smell of a BBQ still appeals to him. But because of what he has seen, Safran Foer says that a few minutes of culinary pleasure and satisfaction are not worth the suffering he knows went into that food.
I will be sharing some of his information with you on this blog in the coming weeks but I highly recommend that you read this book. It is shocking, disturbing, logical, and hopeful all at the same time. Check out this interview Safran Foer did on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knClcpPR6mc
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