Best of
Vegan

1988

The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook


Louise Hagler - 1988
    Talented cooks from The Farm, a vegetarian community in Tennessee, present a great collection of plant-based recipes. These tasty, nutritious, and economical meals are cholesterol-, egg- and dairy-free.

The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery


Marjorie Spiegel - 1988
    Using considerable scholarship, she makes a strong case for links between white oppression of black slaves and human oppression of animals. Her thesis is not that the oppressions suffered by black people and animals have taken identical forms but that they share the same relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed. These comparisons include the brandings and auctions of both slaves and animals, the hideous means of transport (slave ships, truckloads of cattle), and the tearing of offspring from their mothers. Her illustrative juxtapositions are graphic, e.g., a photograph of a chimpanzee in a syphilis experiment beside a photo of a black man in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. As Alice Walker writes in the preface, "This powerful book...will take a lifetime to forget." Chilling yet enlightening, this provocative book is vitally important in our efforts to understand the roots of individual and societal violence.