Are you looking to make some changes diet-wise? Not sure where to start when it comes to plant based diets? Then this could be the book for you. This title is a great guide to make changes in your daily eating habits. Recommended for public libraries since this has become a popular trend.

Thank you for this book. I have a kindle paperwhite and the formatting is a bit off - some parts have very large fonts and others very small, sometimes changing in the middle of a word or sentence. That, along with the fact that there is no way to navigate through the book by table of contents - you just have to pick a random location number, makes it difficult to follow. This is not a fiction book so you don't read it from cover to cover - you need to be able to skip around some. I will look for a paper copy in the future.. Thank you.

I thought this was a great introduction to a life without meat. i think the way that the author presents the argument for moving towards a meatless diet was fantastic, especially when there are great and nutritious alternatives. I have not tried the recipes as yet but I plan to as soon as possible.

Perfect book for someone considering making changes to their diet to be more healthy or because their health depends on it. This isn't a preachy or a pushy book about going meatless. Instead the book encourages healthier eating habits and ways to make plant based diet changes. The book shows that not eating meat doesn't have to be all or nothing. Many do meatless Mondays, no meat before 6pm, or just reduce the amount of meat eaten through the week. The book is part information and part instructional. There are sections on animal welfare and animal agriculture's impact on the environment (water /gas emissions). Labeling used for eggs and meat products are simplified. For someone willing to make some small / drastic changes to their eating habits Middleton gives specifics on behaviors to start, ways to notice, and promote success. She includes simple swaps to foods the reader may already enjoy so more plant based eating doesn't seem so daunting. Lastly there are satisfying recipes. These are the not the lofty hard to recreate types in so many vegan cookbooks on the bookshelves. Middleton's recipes included mushroom barley soup, morning scramble, and braised tempeh. This is a good stepping stone to dip your feet into the meatless world.

While full of important information, the content is quite devastating, and by the time you reach the recipes over 100 pages in, you find yourself mentally exhausted. The recipes are meat free, which I appreciate, having not eaten meat since I was 12, and seem serviceable, but a little familiar, and I was not really inspired.

I admire the author a lot for her passion. I thought she wrote very well. Having harrowing descriptions of animal treatment in the same book with recipes is unsettling.