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Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World

Author: Bob Torres
ISBN-nr: 977080412
Category: Vegan Issues
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Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World is the essential guide for new vegans, those thinking about veganism, and long-time vegans alike. Loaded with practical advice, tips, and extensive appendices, this book will help anyone who wants to live a as a vegan in a very non-vegan world.

Vegan Freak
By Bob Torres and Jenna Torres
Published by Tofu Hound Press, 2005
ISBN 0977080412, 978-0977080410
196 pages

Curious about veganism? Want to be a vegan? Already a vegan? Just wondering how to be vegan without going insane? In this informative and practical guide on veganism, team Torres helps you love your inner vegan freak. Loaded with tips, advice, stories, and comprehensive lists of resources that no vegan should live without, this book is key to helping you thrive as a happy, healthy, and sane vegan in a decidedly non-vegan world. Witty, opinionated, and eminently useful.

Table of Contents

Chapter one: vegan and freaky
Het health nut and the hippie
Going vegan: the cold tofu approach
How we went vegan
Pathways to veganism
Perfection and the vegan police
Veganism can change your life!

Chapter 2: in which we get all AR on you
Simon the sadist
Speciesism
Speciesism and capitalism
Veganism and hunger: truth and fiction
Vegan health
Fighting animal exploitation

Chapter three: hell is other people
Repression
Family (or, "Am I really related to these people?")
Friends
Does somebody have a case of the mondays?
Dealing with vegetarians
Vegan? Vegetarian? Does it matter?

Chapter four: what DO vegans eat anyway?
What is vegan?
But beer is vegan, right?!
What's for dinner?
Surviving the grocery store
Surviving the restaurant
On the road again: vegan travel
Is your dog a vegan?
And finally...

Chapter five: fur is dead. and leather too. and wool.
But what do I do with the old leather?
Pleather is punk
Vegan cosmetics and toiletries
Don't read this section if you're under 18

Chapter six: go vegan, stay vegan

Appendix a: 25 things you can do to get involved

Appendix b: resources
Internet resources
Vegan food
Books

Index

Reviews

"Going vegan is the single most important thing you can do to live nonviolence and the abolition of animal exploitation in your everyday life. In this down-to-earth and entertaining guide, Bob and Jenna Torres not only convince you that you have to go vegan today, they also give you what you need to live as a healthy and happy vegan for the rest of your life." -Gary L. Francione, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers University

Bob Torres holds a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University. Author of Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (AK Press, 2007), Bob's writings have also appeared in Critical Sociology, the Journal of Latinos and Education, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, and Satya magazine. Co-host of Vegan Freak Radio, Bob has been quoted extensively in media pieces on veganism and animal rights. He maintains a web presence at www.bobtorres.net.

Jenna Torres has a BA in Spanish and a BS in Plant Science from Penn State University, and received her PhD from Cornell University in Spanish linguistics. She currently works at a small liberal arts university in upstate New York. She is the co-host of Vegan Freak Radio, a podcast about life as a vegan in a very non-vegan world. She has also been on Animal Voices Radio (CUIT Toronto) and been quoted in Newsweek, Metro newspaper, Veg News, and the book Vegetarians and Vegans in the World Today.

Learn more about the book at the official website VeganFreak.net