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General Introductions
Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating
by Erik Marcus
Published: Ithaca, New York, McBooks Press, 1998.
Description: Marcus expertly details the negative health,
environmental, and other ethical problems inherent in modern animal
agriculture. One of the best, most concise introductions to the
"new ethics of eating." Now free
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Becoming Vegetarian: The Complete Guide to
Adopting a Healthy Vegetarian Diet
by Vesanto Melina, Brenda Davis, and Victoria Harrison
Published: Summertown, Tennessee, Book Publishing Company,
1995.
Description: This is an excellent guide to healthy vegetarian
living, with recipes.
The
Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Your
World
by John Robbins
Published: Berkeley, Calif., Conari Press, 2001.
Description: The powerful follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated
classic, Diet for a New America.
Christian Titles
Dominion: The Power of Man the Suffering of
Animals, and the Call to Mercy
by Matthew Scully
Published: New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002.
Description: This is one of the best books ever written on
the subject of animal welfare. Scully, a journalist and former speechwriter
for President George W. Bush, chooses to fight on his own ground.
Good News for All Creation:
Vegetarianism as Christian Stewardship
by Nathan Braun and Stephen R. Kaufman
Published: Cleveland, Vegetarian Advocates Press, 2002.
Description: If you need a biblical mandate for changing
your diet, this book will meet that need. It is important to read
for your own good, for the good of the world, and for God's sake.
On God and Dogs: A Christian Theology of Compassion
for Animals
by Stephen H. Webb
Published: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Description: Prof. Webb's scholarly study suggests that grace
and redemption often involve loving and compassionate relationships
with towards animals.
Good Eating: The Bible, Diet and the Proper
Love of Animals
by Stephen H. Webb
Published: New York, Brazos Press, October 2001.
Description: Webb makes cogent comments about American Christians'
obsession with food (which he calls, quite rightly, an idol) and
proposes a moderate diet of "Christian vegetarianism"
to reflect the anticipated, perfect kingdom of God.
Is God a Vegetarian? Christianity, Vegetarianism,
and Animal Rights
by Richard Alan Young
Published: Chicago, Open Court, 2000.
Description: Prof. Young makes a compelling case that vegetarianism
accords with God's highest ideals.
Love
for All Creatures: Frequently Asked Questions about the Bible and
Animal Rights
by Norm Phelps
Published: New York, The Fund for Animals, 2002.
Description: n/a
God, Humans, and Animals: An Invitation to
Enlarge Our Moral Universe
by Robert N. Wennber
Published: Grand Rapids, MI, Eerdmans, 2003.
Description: This is a book about animals and the moral life.
The kinds of questions it raises are profound and consequential:
Do animals have moral standing?
Also Recommended
Judaism and Vegetarianism
by Richard Schwartz
Published: New York City: Lantern Books, 2000.
Description: A vegetarian diet is not only consistent with
Judaism but, argues Schwartz (emeritus, Coll. of Staten Island;
Judaism and Global Survival), the diet best fitted to basic Jewish
values.
Why Christians Get Sick
by George H. Malkmus
Published: Shippensburg, PA, Treasure House, 1995
Description: With a diagnosis of colon cancer, Rev. Malkmus
launched an intensive biblical and scientific search to find out
why he, a Christian, got sick--and to possibly find an alternative
treatment to the medical profession's usually unsuccessful ones.
Animal Gospel
by Andrew Linzey
Published: Louisville, Westminster John Knox, 1999
Description: Prof. Linzey argues that reverence for God and
respect for God's creation mandates respectful treatment of animals.
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