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My Vegan Dreams: A Handbook for a Rational, Responsible Vegan Lifestyle
Did you know that 56 billion large animals die every year just to satisfy our hunger for meat and animal products? That's not counting the trillions of sea creatures we also harvest. And it's all for nothing. Humans can thrive on a well-balanced diet of plant products. Everything we get from animals, from fur to leather, we have better artificial substitutes for. So why are we still killing?
In this book, teen Vegan Megan Alpha explores the cultural reasons behind the appalling slaughter, and why it needs to stop—not just to save the animals, but to save us and our planet. Raising animals for slaughter desensitizes us to suffering, stunts our ethical growth, and damages the environment. She proves we can do without animal products just fine in this modern world.
If we don't end the slaughter soon, we may end ourselves as well.
In this book, teen Vegan Megan Alpha explores the cultural reasons behind the appalling slaughter, and why it needs to stop—not just to save the animals, but to save us and our planet. Raising animals for slaughter desensitizes us to suffering, stunts our ethical growth, and damages the environment. She proves we can do without animal products just fine in this modern world.
If we don't end the slaughter soon, we may end ourselves as well.
160 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 7, 2017
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February 9, 2023
Hey Megan,
I began reading your book and have found the vegan lifestyle very interesting. You point out a lot of personal health benefits and ways it can improve our planet. While I personally will never go vegan, it provided me with solid background information on this lifestyle. However, your chapter 3 arguments are not backed up by facts and are opinions. You lost a lot of credibility at this point. Particularly on page 66 where you talked about how dairy cattle “produce huge amounts of milk - as much as a gallon or more at a time.” Believe it or not the average dairy cow produces about 8 gallons a day. I personally grew up on a dairy farm, and strongly encourage you to talk to and visit producers before making these strong statements. We do not openly bash your lifestyle or career, so is it fair for you to do so? Again, I really encourage you to visit some producers of livestock and learn about this before making assumptions which is what the “facts” in your book are.
I began reading your book and have found the vegan lifestyle very interesting. You point out a lot of personal health benefits and ways it can improve our planet. While I personally will never go vegan, it provided me with solid background information on this lifestyle. However, your chapter 3 arguments are not backed up by facts and are opinions. You lost a lot of credibility at this point. Particularly on page 66 where you talked about how dairy cattle “produce huge amounts of milk - as much as a gallon or more at a time.” Believe it or not the average dairy cow produces about 8 gallons a day. I personally grew up on a dairy farm, and strongly encourage you to talk to and visit producers before making these strong statements. We do not openly bash your lifestyle or career, so is it fair for you to do so? Again, I really encourage you to visit some producers of livestock and learn about this before making assumptions which is what the “facts” in your book are.
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