Emilia A. Leese is an author, re-wilder, podcast host, public speaker and magazine editor. She also developed life skills and ethics workshops for underserved youth. Emi has been a corporate finance lawyer for over twenty years. Her Think Like a Vegan podcast is streaming on all platforms. She lives in London and the Highlands.
Introduction
1 Chapter 1: Basics What Does It Mean to Be Vegan?
7 Vegans are just like you, we promise
7 Rejecting speciesism
8 Animals and ownership
12 Use is the problem
14 Being vegan in a non
vegan world
18 Rejecting all bigotry
19 What Would Be the Answer in a Human Context?
21 Vegan or Plant
Based?
26 What is a plant
based diet?
27 How does veganism diff er?
28 Why do we care?
28 Can’t we all just get along?
29 A Framework for Analysing Animal Issues
30 Chapter 1 Takeaways
33 Chapter 2: Live and Love Vegan Vegans Don’t Need Capes
37 Serves Them Right! 40Vegansexualism
41 Our Journey and Advocacy
44 How Being Straight
Edge Prepared Me for Veganism
46 Why Did I Go Vegan in My Forties?
50 The Rocky Road to My Partner Going Vegan
54 Veganism and Yoga
56 Libby: An Argument for Rescuing Animals
59 Honey Isn’t Ours
62 Chapter 2 Takeaways
65 Chapter 3: Veganism is for Everyone If You Believe in Social Justice, You Believe in Veganism
69 Veganism and Poverty: Reconcilable and Intersectional
71 Exploitation and the Patriarchy
76 The Mechanisms of
Isms Are the Same
79 A Vegan Experiment
81 Only Forty
Six Days
84 Chapter 3 Takeaways
87 Chapter 4: Money and Politics Body Count
91 Beyond Meat
106 A Wicked Good Opportunity
110 What About ‘No
Kill’ Eggs?
112 Size Doesn’t Matter
115 The California Fur Ban: What Does it Actually Accomplish?
122 Chapter 4 Takeaways
126 Chapter 5: Healthy and Frugal Vegan What the Experts Say
129 Veganism as a Measure of Health
132 Disordered Eating in Veganism
136 Frugal Vegan
137 Zoonotic Diseases: Our Deal with the Devil
143 Chapter 5 Takeaways
148 Chapter 6: Environment Environmental Science
151 Land Use
155 Are We So Different from Climate Change Deniers?
159 Chapter 6 Takeaways
161 Chapter 7: Bringing It All Together
163 Chapter 8: Practical Thought Experiments
169 Afterword
207 Further Reading
241 Authors’ Notes
243 List of Essays by Author
247 Endnotes
249 Index
289 Supporters
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