Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World (Tofu Hound Press)
Bob Torres, Jenna Torres
Language: English
Pages: 196
ISBN: 1604860154
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In this informative and practical guide, two seasoned vegans offer tips and advice for thriving without animal by-products. Sometimes funny and irreverent yet always aware of its serious message, this resource for being vegan in a world that doesn’t always understand or have sympathy for the lifestyle illustrates how to go vegan in three weeks or less by employing a “cold tofu method;” convince family, friends, and others that there is no such thing as a vegan cult; and survive restaurants, grocery stores, and meals with omnivores. Also offering answers to questions such as “Do you, like, live on apples and twigs?” this reference dispels myths and explains the arguments for ethical, abolitionist veganism, encouraging everyone to embrace their inner vegan.
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yourself and creatures like you, while supporting a different set of rights for animals. But to do this would be flawed, too, because in the respects that animals are like us — insofar as they can breathe, have mental processes, feel pain, and have emotions — they deserve the same basic and essential protections we do. We’re not saying that animals should have every single one of the same rights humans do — for example, it’d not be useful for cows to vote, or to have free speech — but we are
creature like the one that she’s hugging, a creature with whom she shares the joys and pleasures of life, brings her to tears. “Sick fucks,” she thinks, as she’s filled with a combination of rage and despair. In its broadest outlines, the same essential scenario is repeated millions upon millions of times across the country as people tune into the TV news over their evening meal — an evening meal that is, almost universally, composed of some kind of animal flesh or animal excretion. Surely, over
be forms of violence, because they impact people in ways that are remarkably like the impacts of physical violence. We get that what is being done to animals is rage inducing. We understand the helplessness and frustration that you might feel. But the way to combat these feelings is by helping to build a genuine movement of vegans, not by destroying something and re-creating the dynamic of power and force that we all supposedly detest so much. Apart from the ethical contradictions of violence for
potlucks or meets up for dinner, or does other kinds of social activities — just search around on Google to see if you can find anything. If there’s not one nearby, you can always try to start one up and see what happens! You never know, there may be some other fellow vegans in your area who are dying to meet other vegans. There’s plenty of vegan camaraderie online as well, as we mentioned earlier in the chapter — join a forum, start a blog and read other blogs, participate in a chat, etc. Being
preparing meals that reflect your ethics, that prove that you don’t need animal products to eat well (or for that matter, to be healthy), and that can highlight the abundance of foods available to vegans. If you haven’t done so already, one of the first things you should do is get yourself a copy of a good vegan cookbook. If you can’t buy one for whatever reason, borrow one from a library or a friend, or look online at a site like vegweb.com that has a ton of free recipes to choose from, or at
