Body Parts

Eating dead 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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Meat = Animal Cruelty

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

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The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals by 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. 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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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 eat and wear.

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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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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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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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Not Eco-Friendly

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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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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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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.)

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.)

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.)

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 for the animals. VeganVoices for the planet. VeganVoices for your health: mind, body, soul. Keep scrolling for more VeganVoices. ~CarlVeganDude70

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Wildlife

Don’t destroy their home, then ask why they wander into yours.

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Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson (paperback)

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In his book Half Earth, Edward O. Wilson argues that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. He argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature.

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Have a Heart

Veganism is not a diet.
It’s a decision your heart makes.

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Legends of Change: The unstoppable rise of veganism (Paperback)

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Legends of Change is the ultimate compilation of 85+ first-hand stories, helpful habits, and life-changing tips from women who have transitioned into a vegan lifestyle of plant-based eating.

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Don’t Eat Meat

Meat is Murder.
Meat is Cruel.
Don’t eat Meat.
That’s no Bull.

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Please Don’t Eat Meat: If you give them a name you can’t eat them by Nelia Faye Gay (Paperback)

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You will enjoy this book if you love animals. It is filled with beautiful photos of farm animals having fun, having babies, and learning that they are meat. This story will help you to understand why you should not eat meat, and the last chapter tells you directly what can happen to your body when you do eat red meat. You will have as much fun as the babies in the story while reading this book. Then, hopefully, if you change your diet a little bit, you can live a longer and healthier life. Please don’t eat meat.

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Unplug

Unplug from the meatrix.

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The Vegan Matrix: Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement by Melanie Joy (paperback)

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The Vegan Matrix is a call to awareness and action, empowering vegans to reach a broader audience and to help create a more compassionate and just world.

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Animal Morgue

The meat department at your grocery store is a morgue for millions of murdered animals.

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Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food by Roanne Van Voorst (Harcover)

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Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman’s bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past.

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Ahimsa

Veganism is choosing peace over violence.

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Awakenings: a guide to living a vegan lifestyle by Lucy Watson (Paperback)

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A truly vegan lifestyle is more than just the food you eat, it’s the shoes on your feet, the clothes in your wardrobe, the contents of your cupboards and your make-up bag. Whether vegan for moral, ethical or environmental reasons Lucy Watson demystifies how to live a holistic vegan life, whether it’s something you’ve been practising for years or is a way of life you’re just discovering. Awakenings is perfect for anyone looking to reduce their environmental impact and make ethical choices that don’t impact on animals.

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Vegan 2022

Vegan for the animals. Vegan for the planet. Vegan for your health: mind, body, soul.

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JUST Egg made from plants

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Animal Liberation

Animals are not here to work for humans.

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Voices for Animal Liberation: Inspirational Accounts by Animal Rights Activists by Brittany Michelson with a Forewars by Ingrid Newkirk, Founder and President of PETA. (paperback)

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Vegan Sex

Vegan Sex Workers

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Vegan Sex by Ellen Jaffe Jones (paperback)
Dump Your Meds and Jump In Bed

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Satisfy all your appetites, from the kitchen to the boudoir, with a simple dietary shift. Vegan fitness expert Ellen Jaffe Jones joins forces with cardiologist Joel Kahn to spotlight the latest research on how a plant-based diet can increase sexual vigor, heighten satisfaction, and boost libido for both men and women. Shop Now @ Amazon

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Ahimsa

Live with compassion. Live Vegan

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The Buddha, The Vegan, and You: Part1: Meat, Myself and Irony by John Bussineau (paperback)

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In The Buddha, The Vegan and You: Part I, the author, a student and practitioner of Buddhism for eighteen years, shares how he changed his eating habits, improved his health, and lost weight by using various meditation practices. These meditation techniques, in conjunction with research, helped him to curb cravings and attachment to “standard American diet” foods. He reveals what it was like going from a heavy intake of animal products to a vegan diet. The book explores the role of eating meat, dairy, fish and eggs in relation to the five Buddhist Precepts on ethical behavior as well as myths and stories non-vegan and non-vegetarian Buddhists tell themselves sanctioning them to eat as they always have. These myths and stories are the same ones the author told himself, in many cases, but after careful reflection he found that his eating habits contradicted his Buddhist practice and training. The book concludes with a vegan perspective on the four powers, a Buddhist practice designed to transform ourselves and change our karma.

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Think Vegan

Think about the victims of your meal.

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How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach by Tobias Leenaert (paperback)

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In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, with entire societies dependent on using animals, we need a very pragmatic approach. How to Create a Vegan World contains many valuable ideas and insights for both budding advocates for animals and seasoned activists, organizational leaders, and even entrepreneurs. Shop Amazon Now

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Violence Against Animals

Eating animals normalizes violence.

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Every Twelve Seconds by Timothy Pachirat: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Paperback)

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This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant’s point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day—one every twelve seconds. Working in the cooler as a liver hanger, in the chutes as a cattle driver, and on the kill floor as a food-safety quality-control worker, Pachirat experienced firsthand the realities of the work of killing in modern society. He uses those experiences to explore not only the slaughter industry but also how, as a society, we facilitate violent labor and hide away that which is too repugnant to contemplate. Shop Now @ Amazon

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Choose Kindness

Choose Vegan

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72 Reasons to Be Vegan: Why Plant-Based. Why Now. by Gene Stone and Kathy Freston Paperback

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Did you know that if you adopt a vegan diet you can enjoy better sex? Save money? Have glowing skin? You can ward off Alzheimer’s, Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and other metabolic diseases. You can eat delicious burgers. Help save the planet. Oh, and did we mention have better sex? (It’s about blood flow.) Those are just some of the 72 reasons we should all be vegan, as compiled and persuasively argued by Gene Stone and Kathy Freston, two of the leading voices in the ever-growing movement to eat a plant-based diet. While plenty of books tell you how to go vegan, 72 Reasons to Be Vegan is the book that tells you why. And it does so in a way that emphasizes not what you’d be giving up, but what you’d be gaining. Shop @ Amazon Now

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Don’t Eat Violence

It’s not a burger, it’s violence.

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Mind If I Order the Cheeseburger? by Sherry F. Colb And Other Questions People Ask Vegans (paperback)

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Using humor and reason, Sherry F. Colb takes these questions at face value and also delves deeply into the motivations behind them, coming up with answers that are not only intelligent but insightful about human nature. Through examples, case studies, and clear-eyed logic, she provides arguments for everything from why veganism is compatible with the world’s major religions to why vegetarianism is not enough. In the end, she shows how it is possible for vegans and non-vegans to engage in a mutually beneficial conversation without descending into counterproductive name-calling, and to work together to create a more hospitable world for human animals and non-human animals alike. Shop Now @ Amazon

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McMurder

Ronald McDonald is guilty of the McMurder of millions and billions of innocent animals and will be put to death for his crimes.

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