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Contents:We Want the Best; More Nutriment; Less Disease; More Natural to Man; Greater Strength; Less Animal Passion; Economy; The Degradation of the Slaughterman; Occult Reasons; Impure Vehicles; Man's Duty Toward Nature; Ghastly Unseen Results; The Better Time to Come. ... Read more

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The Best Book on BOTH Subjects!
Bishop Leadbeater points out why anybody working with the Occult cannot eat the flesh of other living beings.He makes it clear that the stain on one's soul for causing such suffering to others renders one unfit for occult studies.His is yet another argument for why causing the suffering of other living beings is wrong, not just for altruistic reasons but because of the harm that one does to oneself.I highly recommend this book for anybody who is working in the Occult.With the discipline necessary for mastering those studies, it should be easy to add a switch to a vegetarian diet to the list of requirements.If you don't have the discipline to become a vegetarian or vegan, then you don't belong in the world of the Occult.Leadbeater doesn't mince his words at all.Witches and Ceremonial Magicians, take heed.

A Revelation!
The connection between a vegetarian lifestyle and the occult teachings makes total sense after one reads this book and truly understands the morality behind occult practices.Excellent in its scope and breadth in its coverage of this ancient practice. ... Read more

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The term “Alternative Medicine” encompasses many forms, and elicits at least as many opinions. This authoritative, objective set is in tune with the subjects that matter to students and researchers, presenting four volumes of current, unbiased information on alternative and complementary medical practices. Covering all aspects of the subject—Therapies, Conditions/Diseases, Herbs/Plants and People—the “Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine” identifies 150 types of alternative medicine being practiced today, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda and osteopathy. For the practitioner or interested patient, there are current training requirements, listings of organizations, as well as descriptions of treatments.

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This digital document is an article from Vegetarian Journal, published by Vegetarian Resource Group on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 636 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nutrition hotline: this issue's Nutrition Hotline provides those who either don't like to cook or can't find the time to do so with a philosophy for creating meals.
Author: Suzanne Havala Hobbs
Publication: Vegetarian Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Vegetarian Resource Group
Volume: 24Issue: 2Page: 2(2)

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This digital document is an article from Vegetarian Journal, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 694 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Vegetarianism and tennis: a natural partnership: an interview with Peter Burwash.(Vegetarian Action)(Interview)
Author: Heather Gorn
Publication: Vegetarian Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 25Issue: 2Page: 35(1)

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You're About To Uncover What The #1 Key Is To Sports Nutrition And Exactly What Sports Nutrition Is And How It Can Help You, No Matter How Much Time You Have Had To Prepare!

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An irreverent yet comprehensive book that teaches meat eaters both the fundamentals and the quirky idiosyncrasies of vegetarian life in a humorous way. The book has a resource section for those who want materials that have a more serious content. ... Read more

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Fantastic guide to vegetarian lifestyle
It may be hard at first, but there is so much help out there now. It is one of the best decisions we ever made at our house. One of the best things about it is we can now eat as much as we want. It's really just a matter of changing your tastes to like veggies, grains and fruits instead of the high fat flesh products.

This book is pretty good and we gave it away as a gift. There is lots of information about how much it takes to feed animals to feed us. It's really amazing how wasteful eating meat is.

One of the reasons we changed was because we noticed that even cutting back on the standard american diet is still not good. You really have to change your diet (not a change just to lose weight and then go back, but a true change). Our local school serves french fries four days a week (I know, vegetarian, but it's not good). This told us how far society has come to try and fix things with a pill or shot and how much change had to start with me and my home.

Groovy as all get out!!
As an avid reader of "scads" of books related to vegetarianism/veganism - and as a vegetarian of nine years, vegan of one - I've got to say this is by far THE MOST ENTERTAINING BOOK I've read on this topic!I've gasped, winced and even cried reading non-fiction portraying the ghasly side of human behavior and how we treat animals, but I've never laughed out loud - until now!(My cats think these seemingly unprovoked outbursts indicate that I've finally gone insane.)Definitely not just for the flesh-eater, as the title may lead one to conclude, this book is jam-packed with facts and the author's insightful observations.Reinhardt, perhaps the only ethical attorney in existence, asks you to question your behaviors, consider the alternatives and make the kindest, most logical alterations in your lifestyle for your physical health, your conscience, the planet and of course, the animals.Don't pass this one up - buy it used, contact the author, track down an unsuspecting vegan in the tofu department and beg to borrow it!I love this book and am buying copies for all of my redneck, backwoods relatives who still can't pronounce "what it is exactly that I am."(Veee-gun, Aunt Edna.)This one is fun and informative - get a copy and enjoy!

Funny and enjoyable to read while full of truths
This is a fantastic book.After a difficult holiday with relatives I picked up this book and wished I had had it with me before the holiday had started. Since then I bought 8 more copies and have given them to friends and relatives alike.Information on the benefits of being vegetarian is presented in a non-emotional way with excellent facts to support the information.It covers issues ranging from nutrition to environment to factory farms. There are scenarios for dating, a whole chapter on dealing with relatives, and tips on how to be vegetarian during the holidays without going hungry.There's no meat-eater bashing in here.In fact, a lot of the writing is pretty funny.Its just a very straightforward presentation of information and armed with non-emotional information makes it so much easier to have a conversation with people who try to challenge your choices.I highly recommend this for anyone who is vegetarian/vegan as well as for anyone who loves/knows someone who has made such a choice and you want to understand why.Its absolutely one of the best books I've read and has helped me immensely. Plus there are some really funny parts.Enjoyable and quick to read

Sound advice.....read on
I found this book to be very helpful and fun to read but,I haven't picked it up again since my first read through.I think this would be a great gift to a new vegatarian or a lender to a person interested in learning more about the specifics.Informative and fun....just not a whole lot of new info for this long-time reader and veggie eater!

Entetaining as Well as Educational
This book is an outstanding review of the health, ecological, and moral reasons for refraining from eating animal products. Having said that, it is neither "preachy" nor sanctimonious but rather downrightentertaining. I loved it. It made a vegetarian out ofme. ... Read more

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”A New Look at Vegetarianism” contains various aspects of plant-based, or meatless, diets. It provides not only economical, cultural, biological and evolutionary viewpoints but also modern perspectives on health promotion and disease prevention.

The material is presented succinctly, with good use of tables, and is referenced appropriately. In Chapter-1, vegetarian diets are classified as lacto-vegetarian, ovo-vegetarian, lacto-ovo-vegetarian, or vegan, respectively, if they include dairy products, eggs, both dairy products and eggs, or no animal products at all. Lacto-ovo- or lacto-vegetarians, diets can be followed without much concern about nutrition even in growing children, whereas children who are vegans may require special attention and may have slower growth even if they are in good health.

Vegetarians in general and vegans in particular should be concerned about nutrients in vegetarian diets. However, appropriately planned vegan or lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets can be nutritionally adequate. There is concern about the adequacy of vitamin B12 and D in vegans in general, but these needs can be met by food fortification.

In Chapter-4 health-promoting phytochemicals (beyond the traditional nutrients) provide information about the food and herbal sources that can be used against cancer, heart problems, and even to live-longer.Whether phytochemicals or otherwise, the book recommends that whole foods rather than juices and supplements be consumed for the best protection against disease or even irregularity.

The discussion of vegetarian diets in relation to the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and disease-specific guidelines show overlap with vegetarian eating patterns. For heart disease, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and cancer both of these recommend eating unrefined grains, fruits, and vegetables and the reduction of the intake of saturated fat and cholesterol (present in all animal products and not in plants).The current dietary guidelines suggest that diets rich in plant foods with small or minimal amounts of animal foods may be the remedy for modern life-style diseases.''Dietary guidelines for vegetarians could be developed with the aim of promoting the consumption of a variety and abundance of plant foods; primarily unrefined and minimally processed plant foods; optional dairy products, eggs, or both; and a generous amount of water and other fluids.

There are historical references to “vegetarianism” as a religious practice in the East and John Harvey Kellogg in the West, a 20th-century Seventh-Day Adventist, who was trained as a physician and operated a Seventh-Day Adventist Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. He developed meat substitutes and other vegetarian health foods, including the breakfast cereals that have immortalized the family name worldwide.

The book includes appendices: Quiz on myth and reality of vegetarianism, Nutritionally balanced vegetarian menus, and Vegetarian diet recipes.

The author of over dozen books, Dr. Dhillon’s unique qualifications include advanced degree in life sciences and molecular biology from Yale University in the West, and his earlier education and experience with vegetarianism as a part of culture, yoga, breathing and spirituality from the East. He uses his knowledge to the fullest and truly presents a synthesis of Eastern and Western approaches to diet and nutrition.The overall impression the book leaves is that vegetarian diets are safe, palatable, healthy, and nutritionally sound.
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Challenging the basic assumptions of a meat-eating society, "Deep Vegetarianism" is a spirited and compelling defense of a vegetarian lifestyle. Considering all of the major arguments both for and against vegetarianism and the habits of meat-eaters, vegetarians, and vegans alike, Michael Allen Fox addresses vegetarianism's cultural, historical, and philosophical background, details vegetarianism's impact on one's living and thinking, and relates vegetarianism to classical and recent defenses of the moral status of animals. Demonstrating how a vegetarian diet is related to our awareness of the world and our ethical outlook on life, Fox looks at the different kinds of vegetarian commitments people make and their reasons for making them. In chapters that address such issues as the experiences, emotions, and grounds that are part of choosing vegetarianism, Fox discusses not only good health, animal suffering, and the environmental impacts of meat production, but such issues as the meaning of food, world hunger, religion and spirituality, and, significantly, the links shared between vegetarianism and other human rights movements and ideologies, particularly feminism.In an extensive chapter that addresses arguments made by advocates of meat-eating, Fox speaks to claims of humans as natural carnivores, animals as replaceable, and vegetarians as anti-feminist. He also addresses arguments surrounding the eating habits of indigenous peoples, eating free-range animals, and carnivorous behavior among animals. The most complete examination of the vegetarian outlook to date, "Deep Vegetarianism" reveals the broad range of philosophical views that contribute to such a choice. It recognizes, and calls for, a conscious awareness of and an individual responsibility to the issues that exist in the moral, political, and social spheres of our existence. With its lively and controversial discussion, "Deep Vegetarianism" promises to appeal to anyone looking to explore the relationship between dietary choice, lifestyle, the treatment of animals and the environment, and personal ethical responsibility. It will also be particularly useful for students and teachers of moral philosophy, ethics, religion, comparative cultures, ecology, and feminism.Author note: Michael Allen Fox has authored and edited numerous books and is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Once an outspoken advocate for animal experimentation, he has since repudiated that view and has published numerous articles in support of vegetarianism and animal rights. ... Read more

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Thoughtful, intelligent book
This is a terrific book, which examines the philosopohical arguments for and against vegetarianism.

Most vegans and vegetarians find themselves in conversations with omnivores about the merits of vegetarianism, whether they go looking for this discourse or not.

I recommend that vegetarians check this book out, especially if you have friends or family members who think that vegetarianism is a seriously crazy way to live. This book provides a thoughtful analysis of the whole range of arguments made -- from the ancient human diet concept through feminism, replaceable animals, and on and on. Never again will you find yourself standing there speechless as an acquaintance at a party or a cousin at Sunday dinnercomes up with an argument you haven't heard before.

This book is well-written, informative, and thought-provoking.

Review of Michael Allen Fox's Deep Vegetarianism
How would society change if instead of a meat-centered dependency, the world switched to universal vegetarianism?In Deep Vegetarianism, Michael Allen Fox explores the positive benefits if humankind were to become an herbivorous species.Moving to a vegetarian society would help diminish world hunger with better management and use of agricultural land, and would also bring awareness to the unjustifiable way in which the majority of food animals are treated, mainly in factory farm practices.He addresses many arguments for vegetarianism, brings to light opinions against [vegetarianism], as well as relates the vegetarian movement with other political movements and struggles throughout history.
From a vegetarian standpoint this book helps to solidify some aspects that may have previously been murky in making the decision to give up meat. It also introduces many issues that one might not have previously considered before becoming a vegetarian.Deep Vegetarianism may encourage a vegetarian to take their diet a step further to becoming a stricter vegetarian, perhaps by moving to the vegan-type diet (no meat, dairy products, or eggs).Solid arguments for justifying vegetarianism that he explores in depth include: health, animal suffering and death, impartiality or disinterested moral concern, environmental concerns, manipulation of nature, world hunger, interspecies kinship and compassion and universal nonviolence.
When identifying arguments commonly used against vegetarianism Fox includes a list from R.G. Frey's book, Rights, Killing, and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics, that lists significant effects such a shift would have on the world.This list includes: "...collapse of the animal food, leather, and pet food industries; social disruption; and the loss of haute cuisine."He [Fox] takes all of these issues into consideration and comes to the conclusion that, "People would still have to eat, and the opportunities for food production, distribution, processing, packaging, shipping, and sales, as well as commodity trading and new secondary industries, would certainly not evaporate." (p.144)
If one reading this book is a meat-eater he [Fox] strongly encourages the change in dietary habits through becoming a vegetarian or into at least putting more thought into where the food being consumed comes from.He does not directly say that if you eat meat you are a bad person, but rather through informative facts and positive reinforcement about the vegetarian lifestyle, he tries to discourage meat eating as the center of the American as well as world diet.His ultimate idea is for the entire world to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle, but is aware that this could not happen overnight.One issue opposing vegetarianism is, "What would happen to the many millions of animals that had been waiting to be killed and eaten" after universal vegetarianism was accepted by society?He addresses this issue by reiterating the fact that adoption of this idea [universal vegetarianism] would be a gradual process."...meat-eating would gradually decline as vegetarianism gained adherents, with the net effect that as demand for meat declined, so too would the supply." (p. 146) Fox also explores that there are some cultures in the world that cannot survive without the use of animals.He explains that the Inuit of northern Canada, and Russia's Arctic nomads, the Nenets, are two examples of these cultures.He [Fox] quotes a leader of the Nenets on his beliefs and passion towards the main staple of life in their culture, the reindeer." `for us in the tundra, the reindeer are life itself.There is nothing we can do without reindeer.It's our food, our clothing, our transportation and every other necessity.You can't survive without reindeer.A person without reindeer is a nobody' " (p. 160) His response to the unavoidable dependence of animal use in indigenous cultures as these is,"Cases such as this, where the very survival of a culture is at stake, require that an exception be made.This may be justified by the principle that while humans may have no greater right to live than members of any other species, they also have no lesser right to live."(p.160)
Throughout Deep Vegetarianism, Fox strongly reiterates the positive effects that a universal change to vegetarianism would have on the entire world.His voice is that of a strong, passionate, and convincing man who will continue to urge people to change their dependence on animals and encourage them towards a vegetarianism lifestyle.He not only concludes that it [universal vegetarianism] would bring humankind closer to the environment, but that it also would significantly cut down on the rapid destruction of the natural world, which increases as the dependence of meat in human society increases.The end of a meat-centered society would not be the end of flourishing human existence as many anti-vegetarians conclude."...vegetarianism, rather than being confining, is liberating as it frees us from the exploitation of animals, the domination of nature, and the oppression of one another, and frees us to discover ourselves in more positive, life-affirming ways." (p.183) Sometimes his writing style has a `preachy' feel because of his adamant opinion that the only right diet for a flourishing world future is one based on vegetarianism ideals, and this may cause some readers to feel very defensive.
For anyone looking to help solidify unclear positions of their vegetarianism, or to explore new ideas to strengthen their stance of a non-meat based diet, I adamantly recommend this book.For people who have not looked into the positive effects of a vegetarian lifestyle, both individually and universal, I recommend this book to be read with an open mind and eager knowledge, keeping in mind that after its completion you may very well be on your way to vegetarianism."In order to make the transition to sustainable societies and sensible lifestyles, we need not embrace extreme altruism and self-denial, just good sense and a sense of proportion." (p.177)

brilliant
Fox's book is a brilliant synthesis of the compelling philosophical, environmental, health, moral, political, cultural, and spiritual reasons for vegetarianism. The real strength of this broad-based "reader" is its ability to bring these diverse arguments together as a coherent whole, while presenting counter-arguments with a fair and balanced hand. "Deep Vegetarianism" is written in an accessible, non-dogmatic style that is sure to be enjoyed by anyone with a passing interest in the subject. Highly recommended!

Food for thought
Michael Allen Fox has written a calm, reasoned assessment of the arguments for and against vegetarianism.A great merit of the book is that it explores philosophical arguments in a way that makes them accessible to thegeneral public.Fox doesn't preach to his readers, nor does he expect usall to become saints overnight.Rather, he asks us to consider thefar-reaching effects of our dietary choices, and to choose wisely.This isa first-rate book!

Dissapointingly shrill.
I was somewhat disappointed in this book.While it supports those who are considering becoming vegetarians for humane reasons with its many descriptions of the cruelty inflctied upon animals by the meat industry, Ifind that "Modern Meat" by Orville Schell did that just as wellwithout delving into the esoteric garbage that Fox gets into in "DeepVegtarianism".I was turned off by the author's rather weak argumentsagainst eating the meat of free range animals.His circular reasoning thatno one should eat the meat from free range animals because there is such asmall supply of it and therefore, since there isn't enough for everyone, noone should eat it, hurts my brain.Fox insists that raising animals for meatis an ecological disaster.What he fails to mention is that there are manyareas of the world where it is impractical to raise crops, but rather easyto raise grazing animals.Fox also gives short shrift to the healthreasons that many people have for eating meat, such as food allergies, irondeficienies, and absorption problems. ... Read more

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With nearly 6 million adult vegetarians in the United States, a push toward a leaner, greener, healthier lifestyle is happening everywhere. Whether their reasons are moral, economic, or health-related, people all over the country?and the world?are making the switch to vegetarianism. In this book, you discover:

• Easy ways to get essential nutrition like protein and iron
  
• Where to buy fresh, high-quality produce without breaking the bank
  
• Cooking tips and techniques for a vegetarian kitchen, such as how to prepare tofu
  
• Delicious vegetarian recipes for every meal of the day, including choices kids will love
  
• The real difference between vegetarian and vegan