I’m a keen reader and try the include as many vegan authors as I can find in my book choices, fiction and non-fiction. Right now I’m looking forward to getting started on the new (and final) Karl Drinkwater Lost Solace novel, Finding Solace.

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    1 year ago

    Not vegan, but I highly recommend The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. That book was hugely historical in exposing Chicago’s slauterhouses and led to massive public uproar, significant decrease of meat consumption in the US, and new laws being passed (Meat Inspection Act).

    Should be required reading in the US.

    Edit: To clarify, this is a fiction book that (despite the subject nature) is a very easy & fun read.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, I read The Jungle recently. It’s pretty grim in places where it discusses conditions in the meat packing plants and the way the people employed there were living. I’m not surprised it had such an effect and possibly still does?