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Becoming VegetarianRecommended books

Becoming Vegetarian and Becoming Vegan both by Vesanto Melina RD and Brenda Davis RD, Breaking the Food Seduction
by Neil Barnard, The Food Revolution by John Robbins, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, Raising Vegetarian Children, and many more.
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Dietary double standard?

When a non-vegetarian gets sick, people assume it's because of stress, overwork, germs, lack of sleep or just chance; but if a vegetarian comes down with the same illness, often it gets wrongly blamed on their diet.

VegE-News – February 2007
Tuesday, 27 February 2007

 VegE-News is a monthly news and events email service. It is free to subscribe.
Their February issue's stories included:

Health
  Unhappy meals - some healthy advice from author Michael Pollan
  Latest Canada mad cow case shows epidemic
  Mad cow: How risky is it to drink milk?
  Survey finds mercury in every fish tested
  Message for men: Go veggie for sake of virility and longer life

Environment
  Meat and global warming: A few more 'Inconvenient Truths'
  Forget a Prius. Eat a falafel

Lifestyles and Trends
  Veggie experiences: My veg moment
  Filipinos urged to celebrate 'Year of the Pig' by going vegetarian
  Boycott this cruel 'delicacy' – foie gras

Animal Issues and Advocacy
  Silent protest against cruelty of Australian live-sheep exports
  Chimps may have used hammers 4,300 years ago

Movies, Books and Perspectives
   Cajun cooking, veggie-style
   Catching up with the Mad Cowboy – Howard Lyman’s new movie