You Don't Need Meat

Be warned that if you read this book, you might just go Vegan. You wont be able to pull the wool over your eyes any longer. Peter is funny and entertaining but he thoroughly covers every aspect of meat from nutrition, disease of people and animals to slaughter houses. He also helps support you in how to tell others your new life decision. I highly recommend this book.

For the past few years, I have avoided red meat for ethical reasons. I've recently been considering taking that extra step, and this is the book that just might do it for me. A great, easy readable primer on veganism - bringing up ideas and issues that I never gave great thought to before: ie: health benefits to veganism, environmental issues regarding the meat industry and anthropological arguments that we may indeed be a vegetarian species to begin with. Not bad for one book! A definite positive!

Having been bombarded by vegetarian books lately, I chose not to pick up this book at the library fearing that it would reiterate the same issues over and over again- disease prevention and weight loss. I love John Robbins books and I was hoping for a parallel which is what I found in this. Cox is humerous, he understands the skepticism that non-vegs face, and how much vegetarian research was never put in headlines. He intends to show that there is firm evidence with the connections between the ingestion of meat and spongiform death in humans, that the younger generation's risk of disease are much higher due to high fat and meat diets, that we were meant to be herbivores, and that our livestock was never meant to consume their own kind. Cox includes in his book the reasons behind the Mad Cow epidemic, the proven facts that farmers and meat ad agencies want to cover up, and the overwhelming (yet hardly heard about) reseach that shows different people and cultures that consume less meat are less likely to contract disease. I like the way that Cox writes with the understanding that meat eating is deep rooted and he can attempt to teach us but not convince us to change our eating habits. I like that he doesnt try and impose a strict diet or make us feel guilt trips for eating meat. He just is showing facts and research that we may not have known about and is important. I also like how Cox makes this book easy to read and humerous.

Everything is referenced so there's no debate. Even if you eat meat, just read it.

This book will change your life! Peter Cox is solely responsible for my family giving up meat five weeks ago. The information is clearly presented and hits hard. After reading this book, I think it would be virtually impossible to continue consuming a Western diet. You don't need meat!! And you won't want any ever again after reading this amazing book.