DVA’s Resource Collection 

Resources to Dive Deeper: Animal Rights & Welfare

    • Animal Liberation, Peter Singer, 1975

    • Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering, Mark Hawthorne, 2013

    • How to Argue with a Meat-Eater and Win Every Time, Ed Winters, 2020

    • This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You), Ed Winters, 2021

    • Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement, Peter Singer, 1998

    • Why We Eat Pigs, Love Dogs, and Wear Cows, Melanie Joy, 2009

    • Animal Equality, Joan Dunayer, 2004

    • The Animal Activist's Handbook: Maximizing Our Positive Impact in the World, Matt Ball & Bruce Friedrich, 2011

    • Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering, Mark Hawthorne, 2015

    • Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009

    • Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food, Gene Baur, 2008

    • Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Movement Under Siege, Will Potter, 2011

    • Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight, Timothy Pachirat, 2011

    • Mercy For Animals: One Man’s Quest to Inspire Compassion and Save Farmed Animals, Nathan Runkle, 2017

    • Not As Nature Intended, Rich Hardy, 2014

    • The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, Peter Singer and Jim Mason, 2006

    • Dominion, Chris Delforce, 2018

    • Land of Hope and Glory, Ed Winters, 2017

    • Meet Your Meat, Bruce Friedrich & Cem Akin, 2002

    • Speciesism: The Movie, Mark Devries, 2013

    • Earthlings, Shaun Monson, 2005

    • Milked, Amy Taylor & Denise Hazlewood, 2021

    • The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, 2009

    • The Ghosts in Our Machine, Liz Marshall, 2013

    • The Last Pig, Allison Argo, 2017

    • Aquatic Life Institute

    • Legal Impact for Chickens

    • New Roots Institute

    • Shrimp Welfare Project

    • The Humane League

  • Earthing Ed (Instagram - @earthlinged)

    @meatcomesfromthepainofanimals

Resources to Dive Deeper: Environment & Climate Impact

    • Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009

    • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan, 2006

    • The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, John Robbins, 2001

    • Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat, Philip Lymbery, 2014

    • We are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer

  • - Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn, 2014

    - Seaspiracy, Ali Tabrizi, 2021

    - Countdown To Year Zero, Jane Velez-Mitchell, 2019

    - Racing to Extinction, Louie Psihoyos, 2015

    -​​ H.O.P.E. What You Eat Matters, Nina Messinger, 2019

Resources to Dive Deeper: Buddhism & Ethics

    • The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights by Norm Phelps, 2004

    • The Faults of Meat: Tibetan Buddhist Writings on Vegetarianism by Geoffrey Barstow, 2019

    • Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet by Geoffrey Barstow, 2017

    • A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion by Matthieu Ricard, 2016

    • Theravada Buddhism and Vegetarianism by Bhikkhu Mahinda, 2019

    • To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian by Philip Kapleau, 1982

    • Compassionate Action:
      The Teachings of Chatral Rinpoche       by Zach Larsoni (ed.), 2005

    • The Life Of Shabkar:
      The Autobiography of a Tibetan Yogin
      Translated by Matthieu Ricard, 2001

    • Food of Bodhisattvas
      Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat
      by Shabkar, 2004

    • Ahimsa:
      Buddhism and the Vegeatrian Ideal by Bodo Balsys, 2004

    • Vegetarianism by Bodhipaksa, 1999

    • Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions
      by Christopher Key Chapple, 1993

    • The Bloodless Revolution
      Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India
      [A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times]
      by Tristram Stuart, 2006

    • The World Peace Diet:
      Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
      by Will Tuttle, 2005

    • The Words of My Perfect Teacher by Patrul Rinpoche,
      Revised Edition 1998

    • The Buddha's Law Among the Birds Transl. by Edward Conze, 1955-2002

Resources to Dive Deeper: Vegan Nutrition & Cooking

    • How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease, Michael Greger, M.D., 2015

    • Veganomics: The Surprising Science on Why More and More Americans Are Turning Vegan, Nick Cooney, 2012

    • Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer – And What You Can Do About It, Karl Weber, 2009

  • - What The Health, Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn, 2017

    - Forks Over Knives, Lee Fulkerson, 2011

    -The Game Changers, Louie Psihoyos, 2019

    -You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, Directed by Mark McCauley, 2024

    -You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, Louie Psihoyos, 2024

    -Eating You Alive, Paul David Kennamer Jr., 2016

    -The Invisible Vegan, Jasmine Leyva, 2019

    -Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, 2008

    -Farm to Fridge, Lee Lovino, 2010

    -They’re Trying to Kill Us, Keegan Kuhn, 2021

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