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«Eating the Earth» is a powerful book about how we affect ourselves and our environment by how we fuel ourselves, focusing on the many problems with meat and other animal products as well as the many benefits of a plant-based diet. This book can change the world as it changes your life!

Excerpt from «Eating the Earth»

How are we eating the Earth?

Eating meat and other animal products threatens animal welfare, personal health, societal safety, worker protections, food security, biodiversity, and environmental sustainability. We can do better. Much better.

Eating the Earth does not have to mean destroying it, animals, and ourselves, as we are currently doing. Eating the Earth can mean eating what grows from our beautiful planet, so we can all thrive.

The way for us to protect the animals, our world, and our health every day is to go veg! The best personal thing we can do for the worst global problems is to avoid animal products and embrace a plant-based lifestyle. As Greenpeace International wrote, “Together, we must become more meat aware and adjust our diets. When we add more plants and alternative proteins to our diets, we begin healing the planet.”

“If one cares about the Earth — if one respects nature — it is better to consume vegetables, fruits, nuts, and grains”, Lisa Kemmerer writes in Animals and World Religions. “If you care about the planet and wish to adopt an Earth-friendly lifestyle, it is advisable to focus only secondarily on the car that you drive, or recycling, or turning off lights and turning down heat, and primarily on what you buy at the grocery store. What we eat has a much greater impact on the environment.”

Like most of you, I did not grow up in a vegetarian or vegan family, let alone a vegetarian or vegan culture. Our societies, governments, corporations, culture, religions, family, friends, neighbors, media, schools, holidays, etc. taught us to eat meat and other animal products. That’s not our fault and we didn’t know any better. But we can change. Black feminist theorist Audre Lorde once said “we are not responsible for our oppression, but we must be responsible for our own liberation”.

As for me, becoming vegetarian in 1983 — I’m a vegan-leaning vegetarian with the peaceful vegan ethics of ahimsa, or non-harming — is among the few best decisions I have made in my life. Since then, I have learned more and more. Let’s learn, heal, sustain, and thrive together, both Earth and Earthlings. Please join me in this amazing adventure!
© Dan Brook

Praise for «Eating the Earth»

“Eating the Earth is an eye-opening, thoroughly-researched book that delves into the multitude of environmental impacts of animal agriculture… This book uncovers the truth and is essential for anyone who wants to know about the ecological and other impacts of their diet. And with that truth, we can all make better choices.”
Hope Bohanec, author of The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?

“Eating the Earth is a great resource for people who are interested in protecting the planet, healthy living, social justice issues, and animal protection.”
Christy Griffin, President, San Francisco Veg Society

«Dr. Brook offers an accessible research guide for anyone committed to preserving all that supports life as we know it on Earth.”
Lee Hall, JD, author of On Their Own Terms: Animal Liberation for the 21st Century

“An important book that I hope many people will read.”
Amy Halpern-Laff, Factory Farming Awareness Coalition

“Just as a well-balanced diet contains a wide range of nutrients, Eating the Earth covers a wide range of reasons for going plant-based… After digesting the book’s substantial knowledge diet, we are ready for action”
George Jacobs, Past President, Centre for a Responsible Future (Singapore)

“In Eating the Earth’s concise, compelling passages, Professor Brook lays out the arguments against animal agriculture and flesh-based foods while positively presenting the nutritional, ecological, and ethical imperatives of plant-based diets. He presents these crucial, life-affirming realities in bite-sized morsels that make these truths easy to digest. I highly recommend Professor Brook’s fact-feast.”
Michael Klaper, MD

“Such a wonderful book by Professor Brook is giving us a full picture of what is happening on Earth. It’s time for us to think about what we should do with our diet… Eating the Earth must be shared to all people we love.”
Shara Ng, Founder of GOVEG Asia magazine, VP of Asia Pacific Vegan Union

“Prof. Dan Brook has compiled 30 chapters in Eating the Earth. Every chapter in this book provides sufficient reason for humanity to eliminate the animal agriculture industry by itself. But taken together, these 30 chapters make the closure of this industry that much more imperative. I fervently wish that this book becomes widely known for finally ending the vile practice of artificially birthing or harvesting innocent sentient beings in order to exploit them and/or kill them.”
Dr. Sailesh Rao, Executive Director of Climate Healers, author of Carbon Dharma

“This book brings the world the message we all need to learn and hear if we want to save our only home and leave behind us a prospering planet for our children and their descendants.”
Ori Shavit, author of Vegans on Top and My Vegan Kitchen

“Professor Dan Brook’s excellent book has the potential to shift our imperiled planet onto a sustainable path. Comprehensive, thoroughly researched, passionately argued, divided into 30 very readable sections, with many valuable supporting quotations, Eating the Earth not only documents the many ways that animal-based diets are threatening the world, but eloquently explains how shifts to plant-based diets can produce a more humane, healthy, just, environmentally-sustainable world.”
Richard Schwartz, PhD, President Emeritus of Jewish Veg, author of Vegan Revolution

“Eating the Earth… Read it and share with a friend!”
Will Tuttle, PhD, author of The World Peace Diet

Kindle (also available in Paperback and Hardcover)

Author Biography

Dan Brook is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University, from where he organizes the Hands on Thailand program.