The veganism It is not limited to a feeding style, but it supposes a value string related to caring for the environment and respect for the life of all animals.
The collective awareness has led many people around the world to adopt veganism as a lifestyle. That is why we find more and more books that allow us to learn and inspire us to live a more conscious, sustainable and respectful life with all living beings.
If you want to find out what the speciesismdelve into the animal ethics and to know the reasons why a vegan philosophy of life could save the world, do not miss the following books.
1. WHY WE LOVE DOGS, EAT PIGS AND DRESS UP WITH COWS, by MELANIE JOY
This revolutionary work investigates animal exploitation from the point of view of psychology. The author explains how society builds mental schemes that educate us to accept the exploitation and consumption of certain animals, but not others.
An essential reading that reveals our actions and the consequences they have on ourselves and the world around us. If you want deconstruct the speciesist mentalityMelanie Joy’s book is ideal for you.
2. ANIMAL LIBERATION, BY PETER SINGER
It was one of the first books to talk about antispeciesism and has become a classic of the vegan movement. Its first edition, released in 1975, promoted the debate on animal ethics, which is why it is an ideal book if you want to delve into the animal rights.
The author qualifies discrimination by species as a criterion as arbitrary as racism or machismo, and exposes the chilling living conditions of exploited animals.
3. EATING ANIMALS, BY JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
This book explores the origin of our Feeding Habits and the consequences that meat consumption has for our health. Safran Foer’s work exposes the social, economic and environmental effects of eating animals and proposes veganism as the most sustainable and responsible way of life.
4. TOWARDS A VEGAN FUTURE, BY TOBIAS LEENAERT
This book proposes a new way to reflect, far from idealism and utopian ways of approaching the vegan philosophy of life. The author argues that, in today’s society, it is necessary to use pragmatic tools to address the communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. If you want new ideas and perspectives on veganismthis book is for you.
5. IN DEFENSE OF ANIMAL RIGHTS, BY TOM REGAN
An essential book that establishes the theoretical and philosophical foundations of animal rights movement. The author investigates all those similarities that exist between human and non-human animals, demonstrating the moral responsibility that we should have towards them.
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