Vegan Book Club

We will meet at the Quaker meetinghouse in West Hartford to discuss Living Among Meat Eaters by Carol J. Adams, and a recipe review from our Project Books for the year: Be a Plant-Based Woman Warrior or the PlantYou books.

Doors open at 2:45 for refreshments and socializing. You are welcome to bring a vegan snack (optional). Coffee and tea will be provided.

Discussion starts at 3 PM.

About the reading:

Is there a blocked vegetarian in your life?

In this second edition of her bold and original book, Carol J. Adams offers real-life advice that vegetarians and vegans can use to defuse any situation where their food choices come under attack. She suggests viewing meat eaters as blocked, and their responses to vegans and vegetarians as signs of what keeps them from changing. The book provides strategies for conversations, insights into hostile behavior, and tips for dining out and entertaining at home among meat eaters, who Adams points out are perfectly happy eating vegan food as long as they don't know that is what they are doing.

This edition features a new preface, a new chapter addressing living among meat eaters online, many new recipes, and revisions throughout to reflect the changes in society since the book was first published in 2001, making this much-loved guide more relevant than ever. As well as being a source of support and information, Living Among Meat Eaters contains more than 50 of Carol's favorite recipes.