Three vegan books in the Amazon Top 100
Thanks to Vegan.com for pointing out that vegan books are hot, hot, hot right now :)
I have The Conscious Cook and have been perusing it. Haven't cooked from it yet, but isn't half the appeal of cookbooks the photos and descriptions? (Just work with me, here.)
I want to get The Kind Diet, and I'm considering Eating Animals, if only to support the author and his efforts on this. I was afraid that it would be another "Omnivore's Dilemma"...where the author totally makes the case for veganism, but them wimps out because he can't hack it. Worse yet, Pollan comes up with some ridonkulous "thank the pig" argument for how eating meat can be all OK. Yeah, 'cause the pig cares. Anyway, I didn't know if Jonathan Foer would go down that same path, and I didn't feel like reading that kind of disappointing effort again.
From what I hear, though, he does not go down that path. Now, I don't know if I want to read it, because I already know what's in it, and I already became a vegan, and I don't know if I need my distress re-heightened. What are you fellow vegans doing?
Anyway, I'm pretty happy that these books are getting mainstream attention, and clearly mainstream wallets opened.
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