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365 Good Reasons to Be a Vegetarian | 
 enlarge | Author: Victor Parachin
Publisher: Avery
Category: Book
List Price: $8.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 236164
Media: Paperback
Pages: 157
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0895298139
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.262
EAN: 9780895298133
ASIN: 0895298139
Publication Date: December 1, 1997
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Product Description
Imagine spending an entire year reading one book. One could engage in this delightful experience with this collection of "thoughts, facts, humor, science, and surprises, " one for each day of the year. As the author explains in his introduction, his collection of items is based on these premises: 1. A vegetarian diet is healthier than a meat-based one. 2. A vegetarian diet uses natural resources (land, water, energy) more efficiently than does a meat based diet. 3. A vegetarian diet does not require the suffering and death of animals. Day 1 begins with an extensive list of famous vegetarians while Day 365 concludes the volume by noting "factory farming has ended the era of the cowboy." In between those two entries we are presented with quotations by people like Gandhi, Paul McCartney, Seneca, Dostoyevsky, Albert Schweitzer, and others. Statistics abound. On Day 165 we discover that a Gallup Poll reported one out of five restaurant eaters search for restaurants serving veg...
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Vegetarianism is not merely a healthier, more eco-friendly, more humane way to live. According to Victor Parachin, it's a guaranteed conversation starter (reason #11); it makes it easier to control weight (#31); it teaches you to identify adzuki, fava, mung, and numerous other types of beans (#56); it prevents constipation (#171); and it can save you thousands of dollars a year in food costs (#346). Peppered throughout are quotes from vegetarians ranging from Paul McCartney ("Eating bits of [animals] makes no sense") to Immanuel Kant ("We can judge the heart of man by his treatment of animals"), along with Albert Einstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Plutarch, and Albert Schweitzer. 365 Good Reasons to Be a Vegetarian is fun to read, even for nonvegetarians, and sure to be inspirational for those who've chosen the meatless path through life.
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 Quirky gift, but short on information June 29, 2004
Miss Kitty (Colorado, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
To fill a book with 365 unique tidbits of why someone should be a vegetarian is a difficult task to undertake. The author does their best to make the reasons interesting, however, it becomes apparent that there is little substance to this book. There are numerous quotes from "famous" persons which were quite interesting. Overall, this book is an easy read, but I found it to be quite repetitive. It makes a quirky gift for a vegetarian, but no serious information about the vegetarian lifestyle can be gained from reading it.
 A book for anyone August 23, 1998
This book is full of reasons to make you want to become a vegetarian. And if you already are one, then it will renew your faith in the lifestyle you have chosen and know is right for the world.
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