Being fully aware of his humanity

Veganism is a lifestyle aimed at respect for the animal as an individual sensitive, so as to guarantee him the right to live his own life. This ethical approach denies the reification of the animal. A person is naturally vegan Vegan regards food; more broadly, it refuses any product of animal exploitation, that is to say, it fails, for example, to wear leather, buying cosmetics or maintenance tested on animals (including of course their ingredients), or to attend a circus show with animals.

This work, first in France on this subject seems to me, which may be the fact that his first impression was exhausted in a few weeks off probably a sign of the underlying mutation experienced by a part of more and more of society in many areas, explains the reasons for choosing this lifestyle. He thus describes the insights that are originally resulting from the withdrawal blinders, we are so conditioned by our education, society, institutions (official medicine) and mainstream media.
From reading this book is the result activist evidence and necessity of choosing veganism. So much a testimony end of the book considers carnistes (people who chose to eat animals without it being necessary *) as a "majority sect", nice oxymoron that appears also as evidence : carniste remain when everything (ethics, health, ecology, human solidarity, as many aspects as developed there) leads logically to go vegan is to refuse a historical movement, comparable to the defense of slavery to another era , so register the refusal and the margin.

If you are vegetarian (do), this book you will open wider the path on which you are engaged (e) (ethical vegetarianism is an untenable position if temporarily). If you carnistes and not very aware of these issues, it may be a salutary shock. Your free will can not dispense with this reflection.

Some items, however, would deserve to be deepened: for example, the circus, or, with greater consequences, how to eat the flesh here is killing not only animals but also human else on the planet.

Also, if you want to learn more about animal ethics and different approaches, I recommend that book.

Accuracy: The author's name is not the one on the book cover; it is Catherine Helayel. It is unfortunate that the book's reprinting layout was not the opportunity to correct this error as well as the summary also wrong. A sheet inserted in the book rectifies these errors in his way.

* In the end of the book, among many witnesses, the GP Jérôme Bernard Pellet, specializing in vegan diet and fully aware of studies on this subject, if need be reminded that a well conducted vegan diet is no problem as nutritional balance, regardless of age.

(Krik, Amazon.com, 3/18/13)