This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

Exhaustively researched and well-written book for the case of being humane towards animals. Earthling Ed managed to make the book comprehensive while keeping his explanations concise. It is easy to read and can be the only book you will have to read about veganism. It includes discussions on:1. The ethics of consuming and using animal products2. The environmental destruction the animal industry causes, and why going vegan is an urgent matter3. How to be healthy and even thrive on a vegan diet4. How the US and UK governments misuse taxes to support the animal industry and then use more taxes to mitigate the ill effects of animal farming5. How the media deceives us about animal products and puts vegans in a bad light6. The logic of going vegan7. How to talk about veganism with other peopleEveryone, regardless of belief, should read this book. If it matters, Ed Winters focuses on the presentation of facts without being annoying. This book is a major achievement and I am proud that I own a copy.

This Is (NOT) Vegan Propaganda.......Ed Winters has for years talked about veganism, or the plant-based lifestyle, with all kinds of people all over the world, from cattle ranchers to slaughterhouse and factory farm workers to animal rights activists to people on the street or interviewers. He has not, however, been able to gather the courage to discuss why he's a vegan with those people closest to him, his family. He fears offending them, it seems, for he believes that his family expects him to remain the same person he was as a child. This is very sad. If parents expect you to remain as you were as a child, they don't love you, but only their idea of you.In 2022's This Is Vegan Propaganda and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You, Winters proves how well he knows his subject. His reasons for the many benefits of veganism are based on scientific research with their sources noted and included in the back.This could be a very long review because there's a lot of intense information to digest. As a longtime vegan I knew much of this (not about chicen plumping) because I too have read the research into animal abuse at factory farms and slaughterhouses that continues because of animal meat lovers' complicit approval of this inhumanity. If you've never read or heard about the systemic, horrific abuse, it will be distinctly disturbing to you, bu no less than it was for me the first time. rading about it. It still disturbs me.Maybe the most important reason for going without animal products is the much more frequent and deadly incidents of pandemics this century. COVID-19 was not the first or the deadliest in history and the worst is predicted by most scientists to be coming if we continue to farm diseased, mutilated animals in highly toxic environments. Wild animals bring the virus to farms, it spreads like wildfire, and all the farmed animals in the surrounding area must be 'culled.' but sometimes the virus mutates enough to affect the lungs of human farm workers.The United Nations has declared for about a decade now that our greatest risk for pandemics come from our close interaction with farmed animals.It is worth pointing out that nearly all farms are considered family farms, including the huge factory farms. The meat, dairy, and egg industries market their products as coming from traditional family farms by naming their farms Willow and Happy, a ploy to convince you to buy from them.There's actually nothing traditional or happy about their farms where they must artificially inseminate and selectively breed their animals then inject them with antibiotics and various growth factors while feeding them an unnatural diet (they traditionally ate grass they evolved to eat) before being slaughtered (farmers prefer using the term harvested) and processed into palatable food.Winters spends time explaining how unnecessary, unhealthy, and immoral it is to eat dead animal flesh.Plant-based options are more and more widely available in supermarkets and restaurants and the market for them is booming. They are delicious, but making meals with them at home is healthiest..It's not that Winters wants farmers to go extinct, but for them to transition to crops that will actually feed the world's hungry billions of people and not the hundreds of millions of farmed animals grown simply to kill for their flesh or secretions and who drink much more water than do plants.In the end Winters makes the case that sustainable, moral veganism will make this world a nicer place to live and create much less risk for pandemics, diseases, and climate change.Maybe this brief summary hasn't convinced you. Maybe you still want to believe that the meat industry has your best interests at heart, which is why they're attacking the freedom of vegans and vegan food producers in their speech and marketing, right? That's also why the media often depicts vegans as militant, crazy, or dangerous, right? Nope, it's the powerful meat industry and lobby with the army.I hope my review has helped to inspire you to consider reading the book or to try veganism.

Ed Winters, also known as Earthling Ed, is a British vegan activist; I believe he recently moved to the U.S. Ed is well-known in the vegan community. He is articulate, well informed, and has a lot of information about veganism and its basis at his fingertips.The book is very informative, but it at times is difficult to read, especially if you are not familiar with the truly horrific dimensions of animal farming. Having said that, it is good to know the truth and be informed about how animal farming actually works. Winters analysis also integrates how animal agriculture has united with government agencies to systematically shield the public about its actual practices and consequences.Towards the end the author discusses psychological barriers to becoming vegan and I found these sections to be insightful. I hadn't really considered these points before and it was helpful to see them brought into a vegan context.At times, though, I think the author underestimates the human capacity for being OK with systemic suffering. When reading about the horrors of animal farming in this book, my mind would sometimes wander to the horrors of war and how most people seem to be able to put up with it and, I suspect, don't really find it horrible. I think Vegans like the author believe that if the truth about animal agriculture is exposed, then people will become vegan as a consequence. But people have been aware of the truth about war for a very long time, and few people are persuaded to an anti-war position as a result.The second weakness in the book for me is that the author does not ground his observations on a spiritual or metaphysical foundation. Perhaps it is unfair to ask the author to do that in a book that is already 264 pages of text with copious additional endnotes. But I missed any discussion of spiritual foundations or metaphysical perspectives. The result of not having these is that it appears to the reader that veganism is something recent, almost like a new, or the latest, trend. In fact veganism has a very long history going back thousands of years. But these older approaches to what we now call a 'vegan perspective' were grounded in spirituality broadly speaking. Perhaps the author might do a second book focused on these kinds of foundational views.But the book is worth reading, both for those who have been vegan for a long time, for those who may be leaning towards a vegan commitment, and for those who are hearing about veganism for the first time. Well done.

This book distills all of the reasons becoming vegan is a huge move in a positive direction for our continued evolution as a species. I became vegan a little over three years ago. Before that, I probably ate more meat than the vast majority of humans. As a former animal consumer, being vegan feels and yes, tastes much better.

This book addresses so many aspects of Veganism, (and carnism). Having been whole food, plant based vegan for just over a year, my biggest dilemma was the range of emotions I was going through and feeling different about every human. This is Vegan Propaganda helped so much, Ed shared what he has been through and wrote about ways to handle interactions.

Chegou no dia previsto, e sem problemas

The cold hard truth.

The first half of this book discusses the indisputable reality of animal agriculture and its impact on the environment, and it is very, very powerful. The facts speak for themselves, and the author does a good job of referencing all of his major claims. Unfortunately, I feel like the latter half of the book dilutes the argument a bit. Here, the author engages in bold, broad-strokes sociological analysis to explain why people continue to support industries that exploit non-human animals. He uses questionable pop psychology to justify his case and makes several unnecessary arguments that just don't check out to me.Edited down slightly, I feel that this book could have been even more powerful. Nevertheless, I think it might be a better starting point in the 21st century than Peter Singer's book Animal Liberation, which was initially published in 1975. I find it very hard to believe that a self-aware, good faith reader could read this book and not have to think long and hard about participating in a system that almost certainly violates their core values. I have chosen to give this book 5 stars despite its minor shortcomings because I am not aware of a better alternative, up-to-date, comprehensive case for veganism. I think there is a very good chance that people who are on the fence about animal exploitation will be convinced after reading it.

It’s never too late to wake up ;) great book by an awesome activist

Ed Winters details realities of animal agriculture across the UK and other developed countries, while busting all the fairy tales and myths we were fed for generations