Elton, Sarah
Summary: Examines the reasons why people choose to eat the way they do, looking at such reasons as health, taste, ethics, religion, and environmental concerns, and discusses a vegetarian lifestyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 613.2 ELTMartin, Claudia
Summary: Cooking a meat-free meal doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, it often provides opportunities to try things we may otherwise never have eaten. Readers will learn about tofu and tabbouleh, and all sorts of other fun ingredients and dishes that do not involve meat. Readers learn how to cook for a vegetarian, and learn tips for how to get enough protein into each dish. This book offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 641.5636 MARCampbell-McBride, Natasha
Summary: Provides a full scientific description of how animal and plant foods are digested and used by the human body. Campbell-McBride presents information on how to feed our bodies to achieve optimal health and vitality. The subject of fasting is covered and will give the reader an understanding on how to use this method for healing and health. The author also answers questions on where our food comes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Medinform 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.2 MCBFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: Foer dissects our dietary choices in an intriguing look at why we eat the things we do.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 641.3 FOELacera, Megan
Summary: Mo Romero is a zombie who loves nothing more than growing, cooking, and eating vegetables. Tomatoes? Tantalizing. Peppers? Pure perfection! The problem? Mo's parents insist that their niños eat only zombie cuisine, like arm-panadas and finger foods. They tell Mo over and over that zombies don't eat veggies. But Mo can't imagine a lifetime of just eating zombie food and giving up his veggies. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG LACSummary: The documentary film PlantPure Nation tells the story of three people on a quest to spread the message of one of the most important health breakthroughs of all time. After renowned nutritional scientist and bestselling author Dr. T. Colin Campbell gives a stirring speech on the floor of the Kentucky House of Representatives, his son Nelson, and Kentucky State Representative Tom Riner work...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PlantPure Productions LCC 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLAFoer, Jonathan Safran
Summary: Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, "Eating Animals" explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits--from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth--and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 FOEHever, Julieanna.
Summary: You are what you eat, and every bite you take affects your body and your well-being. Eating a whole-food, plant-based diet helps you and your body thrive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2011
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Summary: Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agriculturecausing the devastation ofprairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoiland asserts that, in order to save the planet, food must come from within living communities. In order for this to happen, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2009
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Roberts, Holly
Summary: A practical guide to maintaining a healthy, vegetable-based diet before, during, and after pregnancy combines obstetrical information with nutritional principles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.24 ROBMadison, Deborah
Summary: "From the author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ("The Queen of Greens" --The Washington Post)--a warm, bracingly honest memoir that also gives us an insider's look at the vegetarian movement. Thanks to her beloved cookbooks and groundbreaking work as the chef at Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, Deborah Madison, though not a vegetarian herself, has long been revered as this country's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: Exposes common misconceptions about how animals are slaughtered and processed for food, drawing on sources ranging from popular culture to national tradition to reveal how the meat industry misrepresents its practices.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mpi Media Group 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EATShprintzen, Adam D.
Summary: Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years of the movement have been woefully misunderstood and understudied. Through the Civil War, the vegetarian movement focused on social and political reform, but by the late nineteenth century, the movement became a path for personal strength and success in a newly individualistic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.262 SHPYager, Jan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1975
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Breakfast & brunch -- Pizzas, sandwiches & burgers -- Salad makes the meal -- Soups, stews & chilis -- Stir-fries & sautés -- Hot from the oven -- Veggies on the grill -- Pasta, rice & grains -- The flexible vegetarian -- Sweet & fruity desserts -- Metric conversion charts -- Photography credits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 FAMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5636 FAMKrulik, Nancy E.
Summary: While her class is studying reptiles, Katie, a vegetarian, refuses to feed worms to Slinky the snake, class 4A's pet, but when the magic wind turns her into Slinky, Katie learns that some animals cannot survive on vegetables alone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2008
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KRUMelina, Vesanto
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Publisher / Publication Date: Healthy Living Publications 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 613.2 MelinaMoran, Victoria
Summary: A holistic health counselor and author of the best-selling Creating a Charmed Life shares practical advice for gradually shifting to a vegan lifestyle, providing recommendations for becoming an informed consumer while sharing 40 vegan recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 MORPolenz, Kathy.
Summary: A collection of healthy vegetarian recipes, covering starters, sides, soups, salads, sandwiches, grain, pasta, beans, tofu, tempeh, seitan, eggs, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5636 Polenz 2012Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5636 POLSummary: This film examines the claim that most if not all degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. It traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Although they didn't know each other, their individual research led to startlingly similar conclusions:...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monica Beach Media 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: 613.28 DVD Forks 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOR RATED NRCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Nonfic FoBarnard, Neal D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.262 BARBialik, Mayim
Summary: Explains the advantages of a plant-based diet for families with children and offers a collection of family-friendly vegan recipes for breakfast foods, soups, salads, sandwiches, snacks, main and side dishes, breads, and desserts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5636 BIAFreston, Kathy.
Summary: Promotes weight loss, healthy eating, and conscious consumerism through veganism, arguing that a meat and dairy-free lifestyle helps one lose weight, live longer, and is better for the economy and the environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Books 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5636 FRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5637 FREKahn, Mara J.
Summary: Science meets sensuality in this penetrating examination of veganism, its scant history, dazzling health claims, fiery proponents, and growing throngs of disillusioned drop-outs. If you've ever wondered whether a plants-only diet is right for you, your son, daughter or significant other, Vegan Betrayal answers all your questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Boat Books 2016