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Greetings and thanks for stopping by. I'm Carl, a VeganDude, and VeganVoices is my blog. I'm 70 years-young, proud dad, grandpa, vegan. I went vegan after my near-fatal car crash in 1993. I was forty at the time. The crash happened while I was going to work. It changed my life forever. Among other things, my near-death experience gave me a new appreciation of life, both human and nonhuman. I believe that all life has equal value and should be respected. Killing animals for any reason is not respecting life. VeganVoices are loud and clear. Go Vegan for animals, the planet, your health: mind, body, soul.

Hell On Earth

If they could speak, what would they say?

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A Vegan Planet: Your guide to a life transforming journey by Jeff Letendre is a guide providing clear and scientific answers to your questions debunking the many myths surrounding veganism. Diet, essential nutrients, meal planning, industrial farming, environmental issues, health, the economy, vegan athletes, vivisection, and frequently asked questions are some of the many topics covered in this book.

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Mercy For Animals

Please don’t kill me to wear and eat.

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Mercy for Animals: One Man’s Quest to Inspire Compassion and Improve the Lives of Farm Animals by Gene Stone is a compelling look at animal welfare and factory farming in the United States from Mercy for Animals, the leading international force in preventing cruelty to farmed animals and promoting compassionate food choices and policies.

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For The Animals

Veganism is not about you.
It’s about them.

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Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion by Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings deserve our respect and lays out the steps everyone can take to put this new understanding into action.

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Climate Action Now

If the entire world went vegan, it could help to slow down climate change. The world would be a better place if we were all vegan.

Source: Yahoo News: Should we all go vegan to stop climate change? New study suggests world needs to change diet.

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Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World by Josh Tickell explains an incredible truth: by changing our diets to a soil-nourishing, regenerative agriculture diet, we can reverse global warming, harvest healthy, abundant food, and eliminate the poisonous substances that are harming our children, pets, bodies, and ultimately our planet.

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Captivity Is Cruel

Zoos are created for humans, not the prisoners.

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Until Every Animal is Free by Saryta Rodriguez is an insightful, candid work heralding the Animal Liberation Movement as the next logical step on the path of social justice, dispelling many of the myths that keep us from getting there. In it, Saryta Rodriguez challenges the Myth of Human Supremacy, and explores some of the ideological pillars behind the belief that humans are superior to all other animals.

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Pro Life

Their body, not their choice.

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The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to Peta by Norm Phelps tells the story of animal exploitation and the battle for animal justice.

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Body Parts

Eating body parts is gross.

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What in the World Are We Eating?: The Physical, Mental, and Social Effects of Eating Animals by Temitope Sonuyi. By exploring the physical, mental, and social repercussions of eating animals vs. plants, the author draws a distinct line in the sand that cuts across our economy, biology, health, gender, love, war, religion, and consciousness.

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Stop The Violence

It’s not food. It’s violence.

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Radical Revolution: The fight for animal liberation by Stephen Saunders. Veganism is more than a healthy lifestyle choice—it’s a moral imperative. Society continues to engage in widespread animal oppression, slaughtering billions of helpless living creatures each year. Vivisectionists and researchers torture and kill in the name of science, while corporations and governments plunder nature’s last remaining treasures.

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Mindful Eating

Eating with compassion is a spiritual awakening.

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World Peace Diet (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony by Will Tuttle includes a new preface, new resources, and a study guide. The book presents the outlines of a more empowering understanding of our world, based on the comprehending the far-reaching implications of our food choices. Tuttle offers a set of universal principles for all people of conscience that show how we as a species can move our consciousness forward.

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Meat Not Eco-Friendly

click the pic to learn why

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Meat Me Halfway: How Changing the Way We Eat Can Improve Our Lives and Save Our Planet by Brian Kateman. We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our health, and yet we do it anyway. Ask anyone in the plant-based movement and the solution seems obvious: Stop eating meat. But, for many people, that stark solution is neither appealing nor practical. In Meat Me Halfway, author and founder of the reducetarian movement Brian Kateman puts forth a realistic and balanced goal: mindfully reduce your meat consumption.

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Meat = Murder

Slaughterhouse = Murderhouse

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Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World by Paul Shapiro. Raising such massive numbers of farm animals is woefully inefficient and takes an enormous toll on the planet, public health, and certainly the animals themselves. The next great scientific revolution is underway—discovering new ways to create enough food for the world’s ever-growing, ever-hungry population.

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Vegan Not Viagra

The cholesterol in meat, dairy, and eggs causes hardening of the arteries and not much else!

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The Plant Powered Penis by Mindy Mylrea introduces you to the science and research outlining the causes and effects of food on penile function and provides tips for taking matters into your own hands.

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Meat Screams

Don’t eat food that screams.

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Maya Kaimal Foods – Organic Indian Everyday Dal – 6 pack variety of 10oz Ready to Eat Meals – Fully Cooked – Vegan – Kosher – Microwavable – made from Lentils, Beans, Squash, Coconut, Peas.

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Save The Sea

The best way to save the ocean is not to eat those living in it.

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The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One by Sylvia A. Earle is a Silent Spring for our era. This eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.

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Climate Activism

Fight climate change with diet change.

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The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock by Tony Weis provides a rigorous and eye-opening way of understanding what this system means for the health of the planet, how it contributes to worsening human inequality, and how it constitutes a profound but invisible aspect of the violence of everyday life.

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Eat Healthy

If there’s a health foods section in your grocery store, what does that say about the rest of the store?

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Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World Victoria Moran.  In her book, Moran offers a complete guide to making this dietary and lifestyle shift. (Click the Amazon book cover pic or this link to learn more.)

Less Is More

Live simply so others can simply live.

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The Minimalist Vegan: A Simple Manifesto On Why To Live With Less Stuff And More Compassion by Masa and Michael Ofei is less of a how-to book, and more of a why-to book. A manifesto on why to live with less stuff and with more compassion. (Click the Amazon book cover pic or this ;ink to learn more.)

Animals Are Not Food

Veganism is not just a lifestyle or a diet.
It’s resistance against the most accepted injustice.

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Vegan Voices: Essays by Inspiring Changemakers by Joanne Kong is a comprehensive collection of compelling testimonials of how our food choices are deeply connected to the pressing challenges and issues of our time. Areas covered include: personal and global health; the devastation of animal agriculture to the environment; society’s collective loss of compassion and connection to our kindred animals; and the desire for a world of greater peace, harmony, and inclusivity. (Click the Amazon book cover pic or this link to learn more.)

No Killing

The only way to hunt humanely is not to hunt.

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A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion by Matthieu Ricard. Compassion toward all beings, including our fellow animals, is a moral obligation. (Click this Amazon book cover pic or click this link to learn more.)

In The Beginning…

According to the Bible, all creation would still be vegan as God had intended if it had not been for original sin. God’s first choice, Her greatest wish, Her ideal diet for the pinnacle of Her creation was a vegan lifestyle.

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Garden of Vegan: Examining Meat Eating in the Bible by James Peter Jandu. You would be surprised how vegan the Bible is. (Click the Amazon book cover pic or click this link to learn more.)

Forbidden Fruit 🐂🐓🐖

Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden until they were banished for eating animal flesh, the real forbidden fruit.

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The Real Forbidden Fruit: How Meat Destroys Paradise And How Veganism Can Get It Back by Jeff Popick demonstrates how meat eating is destroying our health, our planet, our societies, and even our connection to God. (Click the book cover pic or this link to learn more.)

Meat = Animal Cruelty

If you don’t support cruelty, stop buying it.

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The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals by James McWilliams

Amazon Book Description
In The Modern Savage, renowned writer, historian, and animal advocate James McWilliams pushes back against the questionable moral standards of a largely omnivorous world and explores the “alternative to the alternative”-not eating domesticated animals at all. In poignant, powerful, and persuasive prose, McWilliams reveals the scope of the cruelty that takes place even on the smallest and-supposedly-most humane animal farms. In a world increasingly aware of animals’ intelligence and the range of their emotions, McWilliams advocates for the only truly moral, sustainable choice-a diet without meat, dairy, or other animal products.

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Live Vegan

Live a life that’s not contributing to cruelty.

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Veganism of Color: Decentering Whiteness in Human and Nonhuman Liberation by Julia Feliz Brueck. This book is a compilation of writings from seldom-heard voices of color drowned out by the same white noise that systematically oppresses us all– vegan or not. Click the book cover pic or click this link to learn more.

Welcome

Greetings and thanks for stopping by. I’m Carl, a VeganDude. I’m 70 years-young and VeganVoices is my blog. I went vegan after my near-fatal car crash in 1993. I was forty at the time. The crash happened while I was going to work. It changed my life forever. Among other things, my near-death experience gave me a new appreciation of life, both human and nonhuman. I believe that all sentient beings have equal value and should be respected. Killing animals for food or any reason is not respecting life. VeganVoices are loud and clear. Go Vegan for the animals. Go Vegan for the planet. Go Vegan for your health: mind, body, soul. ~CarlVeganDude70

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This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) by Ed Winters. Click the Amazon Book pic or this link to learn more.

Animal Cruelty

Everyone is against animal cruelty
until it’s time to eat.

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#EATMEATLESS: Good for Animals, the Earth & All by Jane Goodall (hardcover)

Amazon Book Description
If you’re interested in plant-based diets and/or are passionate about taking action on behalf of the planet we share, this book has the information and inspiration you need to make meaningful mealtime choices. Dr. Jane Goodall, a longtime plant-based activist and a passionate advocate for animals, invites us along with her organization, the Jane Goodall Institute, to commit to a simple promise with the campaign #EatMeatLess.

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