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Vegetarians and vegans in America today
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Vegetarians and vegans in America today

Author: Karen Iacobbo; Michael Iacobbo
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Series: American subcultures
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explains the vegetarian subculture and its relation to other movements, and to the dominant culture in America.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Karen Iacobbo; Michael Iacobbo
ISBN: 0275990168 9780275990169
OCLC Number: 63705830
Description: xxvi, 201 p. : ports. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Foreword / Jeffrey MOussaieff Masson and Leila Masson -- Series foreword / Bruce Jackson -- Preface -- List of interviewees -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Vegetarian world -- 1. Transformation : former meat eaters tell their stories -- 2. Food, hospitality, and business -- 3. Culture -- 4. Body and soul : motivations for abstaining from animal flesh, from physical to profound -- 5. Spreading the good news -- pt. 2. Vegetarians in a meat-eating country -- 6. Paradox -- 7. Vegudice -- 8. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of vegetarian rights -- pt. 3. The future of vegetarianism in the United States -- 9. Brave new world : genetically engineered vegetables, laboratory-grown meat, humane slaughter, and "vegetarians" who eat meat -- 10. Hope springs eternal -- Notes -- Selected resources -- Index.
Series Title: American subcultures
Responsibility: Karen Iacobbo and Michael Iacobbo ; foreword by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson and Leila Masson.
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Explains the vegetarian subculture and its relation to other movements, and to the dominant culture in America.

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