Author: Moby, Miyun Park
Translator: Gyu-jin Ham
Publisher: Hyeonamsa
216 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Synopsis
An information-packed, lively, and informative little guide, Gristle
is the first stop for everyone who wants to make informed choices about
the food they consume. Multi-platinum musician Moby brings together ten
of the country’s leading foodies, policymakers, food-business leaders,
and food activists, who lay out how and why the over-consumption of
industrially produced meat unnecessarily harms agricultural workers,
communities, the environment, and human health—as well as animals.
Contributors include Moby, Brendan Brazier, Lauren Bush, John Mackey,
Wayne Pacelle, Gowri Koneswaran and Meredith Niles, Sara Kubersky and
Tom O’Hagan, Christine Chavez and Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Paul and
Phyllis Willis, Michael Greger, M.D., Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé,
and Miyun Park (detaild bios below).
Publishers Weekly
Musician, vegan and social activist Moby presents a collection of
compelling, well-researched essays that illuminate and enhance the
dialogue on food consumption in America most recently carried forth by
Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Delimma and the documentary film Food,
Inc. Brief but clear essays cover a range of angles: Canadian marathon
champion Brendan Brazier, creator of a line of whole-food nutritional
products, explores the impact of meat and dairy consumption on health;
labor activists Christine Chavez and Julie Chavez Rodriquez account for
workers' conditions; Moby's co-editor Park, executive director of animal
rights group Global Animal Partnership, provides a rousing, personable
call-to-action epilogue. Measuring the actual cost of "industrialized
farmed animal production and meat, egg, and milk consumption,"
contributors pursue their agenda using studies and reports as well as
insightful quotes from livestock producers, legislators, and others
interested in shining light on the world of agribusiness, whose worst
offenders-against public health and safety, ecological stability, and
animal welfare-are right to fear the outrage of an increasingly-informed
public.
From the Publisher
An irresistible guide to the meat you eat by the world's most fun
and famous vegan.
Nothingwill benefit human health and increase thechances for survival of
life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.—Albert
Einstein
Where's the beef? In the news, that's where. More than everbefore,meat
is making headlines. Contamination cases are on the rise, obesity has
become pandemic,and industrial livestock farmingis the cause of 20
percent of all greenhouse emissions. It's no wonder that vegetarianism
has moved from the fringes to the mainstream as evidence accumulatesin
favor of the many benefits of meatlessness.
But 10 Excellent Reasons to Think Twice About Meat is not just for
vegetarians, it's for everyone who wants to make informed choicesabout
the food they consume. Multi-platinum musician Moby, oneof the world's
most famous vegans, brings together ten of the country'sleading foodies,
doctors, policy makers, business leaders, and activists to create a
smart, concise guide to what you should know before you eat meat.
Combining hard-hitting facts with a light touch,each chapter is studded
with quotes fromfamousvegetarians, fun facts, and other irresistible
food for thought.
For the millions of Americans who are questioning the meat in theirdiets,
this is thefun, accessible guide to setting down the sirloin and
reaching for thetofu.
"An information-packed, lively, and informative little guide, Gristle is
for the growing number of people - from meat-eaters to vegetarians - who
are thinking twice about the perils of our system of animal processing
and factory farms." "Musician Moby and leading food policy activist and
expert Miyun Park have brought together ten of the country's leading
voices on this issue - including foodies, policy makers, food business
leaders. and food activists - who together eloquently layout how and why
the overconsumption of industrially produced meat unnecessarily harms
agricultural workers, communities, the environment, and human health, as
well as animals." Combining hard-hitting facts with a light touch - and
with charts and illustrations depicting the stark realities of America's
industrial food system - Gristle is the first stop for everyone who
wants to make informed choices about the food they consume.
Biography
Moby, one of the world’s most critically acclaimed and commercially
successful musicians, has been making music since he was 9 years old. He
started out playing classical guitar and then went on to play with
seminal Connecticut hardcore punk group The Vatican Commandoes when he
was 13 before dj’ing after leaving college and becoming a fixture in the
late 80s New York house and hip-hop scenes. Moby released his first
single in 1991 (listed as one of Rolling Stone’s best records of all
time) and has been making albums ever since. Known for his political and
social activism, he has been a vegan for more than fifteen years. Moby
lives in New York City.
Miyun Park is the executive director of Global Animal Partnership.
Previously she served as Vice President, Farm Animal Welfare, for the
Humane Society of the United States and its global affiliate, Humane
Society International (www.humanesociety.org). She has helped to bring
greater interest in and policy changes for the well-being of animals
raised for meat, eggs, and milk into corporate board rooms,
international investment banks, multilateral organizations, courthouses,
and legislatures. Miyun has spoken on behalf of farm animals throughout
the United States and in China, India, Croatia, Korea, Belgium, Egypt,
and Italy, and has published dozens of articles and reports on animal
agriculture and farm animal welfare, including an essay in Peter
Singer’s In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave and a chapter in State
of the Animals IV: 2007, co-authored with Dr. Andrea Gavinelli of the
European Commission. She is a board member of Global Animal Partnership
(www.URLTOCOME.org) and Farm Forward (www.farmforward.com), and serves
on the editorial board of the Gateway to Farm Animal Welfare, a web
portal created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations. She lives in Washington D.C.
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