[edit] Books
- The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat By Charles Clover 2005 -- "Clover details how fishermen with government compliance are trashing whole ecosystems, wrecking economies, impoverishing the lives of people in developing countries and driving species into extinction." -- The Guild of Food Writer's awards jury leader Colin Spencer
- Skinny Bitch By Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, 2005 -- “As the authors rightly point out, thanks to slick marketing and food-industry lobbying, we’ve reached such a collective level of ignorance about health and nutrition that a diet telling us to eat lots of meat and no fruit becomes wildly successful. ‘You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin,’ they tell us. Harsh? Yes. But it’s also true.†-- Bitch, Anniversary Issue
- Vegan with a Vengeance By Isa Chandra Moskowitz, 2005 -- Vegan with a Vengeance provides an invigorating take on cruelty-free recipes. Isa's hit book reflects muti-cultural influences, Food Not Bombs experience, and punk rock aesthetic. Her NYC vegan cooking show the Post Punk Kitchen aired on local community access TV from 2003-5. She is also the author of Veganomicon and VegNews magazine cookbook of the year (2006), Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World.
- Eternal Treblinka By Charles Patterson, 2002 -- Eternal Treblinka brings to light the common roots of Nazi genocide and modern society's enslavement and slaughter of non-human animals in unprecedented detail.
- Animal Rights, Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation By David Alan Nibert, 2002 -- Offers a new look at the history of western civilization, one that brings into focus the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals.
- The Food Revolution By John Robbins, 2001 -- In this provocative book, best-selling author John Robbins exposes the dangers behind many of today's foods and reveals the extraordinary benefits of healthy alternatives.
- Fast Food Nation By Eric Schlosser, 2001 -- "Not only will it make you think twice before eating your next hamburger … it will also make you think about the fallout that the fast food industry has had on the social and cultural landscape." -- The New York Times
- The Animal Question: Why Nonhuman Animals Deserve Human Rights By Paola Cavalieri, 2001 -- This book by renowned scholar Paola Cavalieri proposes that we extend basic human rights to the nonhuman animals we currently treat as "things."
- Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply By Vandana Shiva, 1999 -- Stolen Harvest explores the genetic manipulations of seeds, the degradation of indigenous diets, corporate agricultural domination, the loss of bio-diversity, and the health benefits of plant-based diets.
- The Dreaded Comparison By Marjorie Spiegel, 1996 -- While the comparison between human and animal slavery is often viewed with suspicion, Marjorie Spiegel, in her book The Dreaded Comparison, weaves the commonalities into a convincing argument.
- The Sexual Politics Of Meat By Carol J. Adams, 1990 -- "Adams examines the historical, gender, race, and class implications of meat culture, and makes the links between the practice of butchering/eating animals and the maintenance of male dominance." -- Ms. Magazine
- Animal Liberation By Peter Singer, 1975 -- Animal Liberation was a major formative influence on the animal liberation movement. Peter Singer began his book by defending against Mary Wollstonecraft's 18th-century critic Thomas Taylor, who argued that if Wollstonecraft's reasoning in defense of women's rights were correct, then "brutes" would have rights too. Taylor thought he had produced a reductio ad absurdum of Wollstonecraft's view; Singer looked at it as a sound logical implication.
- The Jungle By Upton Sinclair , 1906 -- A revolutionary novel, leading to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and meat inspections. Upton Sinclair would later say: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."