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"No one can live without food, but what you eat is a personal decision. In the tweny-first century, many people are choosing to eat more vegetables and fruits and less meat. But is all meat bad for you? What does science say? And what about sugar and trans fats, which are linked to diabetes and heart disease? In addition to health concerns, people make food choices for ethical and religious reasons. Some ancient religions asserted that killing animals...
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From the Publisher: Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agriculture-causing the devastation of prairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoil-and asserts that, in order to save the planet, food must come from within living communities. In order for this to happen, the argument champions eating locally...
24) Free the worms!
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Katie Kazoo switcheroo volume 28
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78 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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While her class is studying reptiles, Katie, a vegetarian, refuses to feed worms to Slinky the snake, class 4A's pet, but when the magic wind turns her into Slinky, Katie learns that some animals cannot survive on vegetables alone.
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xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"An essential guide to harnessing the power of plants and enjoying the benefits of a plant-forward diet, by Ian K. Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Clean Lean. For dieters who want to utilize the benefits of fruits, vegetables, and complex carbs -- without eliminating the meat, dairy, fish, and fats they love -- Dr. Ian K. Smith's new book Plant Power delivers the most flavorful and favorable plant-based foods to their plates. In...
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xviii, 302 pages ; 23 cm
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"Brian Kateman coined the term Reducetarian -- a person who is deliberately reducing his or her consumption of meat -- and a global movement was born. In this book, Kateman, the founder of the Reducetarian Foundation, presents more than 70 original essays from influential thinkers on how the simple act of cutting 10% or more of the meat from one's diet can transform the life of the reader, animals, and the planet. This book features contributions...
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"Just Food author James McWilliams's exploration of the "compassionate carnivore" movement and the paradox of humanity's relationship with animals. In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings, turning what was once the boutique concern of radical eco-freaks into a mainstream movement. Although animal products are often labeled "cage free," "free range,"...
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xii, 305 pages ; 22 cm
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"From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement. Thanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, Deborah Madison, though not a vegetarian herself, has long been revered as this country's leading authority on vegetables. She profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking...
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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This film examines the claim that most if not all degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. It traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Although they didn't know each other, their individual research led to startlingly similar conclusions: degenerative diseases could usually be prevented -- and...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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Outlines what can be done to protect animals and the environment by making such decisions as refusing products tested on or made from animals, avoiding aquariums and zoos, and choosing to buy organic food.
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xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Professional athlete-turned-firefighter Rip Esselstyn shows you how to lose weight, lower cholesterol, significantly reduce the risk of disease, and become physically fit--in just 4 weeks--by following his plant-powered eating plan based on a diet of whole foods, including whole grains, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds.
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xxvii, 367 pages ; 24 cm
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"A bold new plant-based plan that challenges popular keto and paleo diets, from an award-winning gastroenterologist. The benefits of restrictive diets like paleo and keto have been touted for more than a decade, but as renowned gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, or "Dr. B," illuminates in this groundbreaking book, the explosion of studies on the microbiome makes it abundantly clear that eliminations are in fact hazardous to our health. What studies...
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Papercutz slices volume 3
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
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A parody of Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" that features the half human, half brand-name Percy Jerkson, along with his friends Rover and Bananabreath, as they eat only natural dairy foods and battle against the army of fast food giant McKronos and his legion of corporate Icons.
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xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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In 2005, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and Thomas Campbell, MD, co-authored The China Study, in which they detailed research results showing that a whole-food, plant-based diet has the potential to prevent and reverse many chronic diseases. The China Study became a worldwide phenomenon, inspiring countless readers to reinvigorate their health by making better food choices. Now The Campbell Plan goes beyond the why and shows readers how to make the transition--and...
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