Vegetarianism
Basics
On the Web: Articles
Why Vegans Were Right All Along: Famine Can Only Be Avoided if the Rich Give Up Meat, Fish & Dairy. George Monbiot, Guardian (12/14/02).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Hallelujah Acres (Rev. George Malkmus). Biblical argument for veganism.
Happy Cow's Global Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants & Health Food Stores.
International Vegetarian Union.
Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom.
In the Library: Articles
Achaya, K.T. "Vegetarianism: a nutritional appraisal," Current Science 69,5 (9/10/95):415-19.
Alward, P. "The naive argument against moral vegetarianism," Environmental Values 9,1 (2/00):81-89.
Antrobus, D. "The roots of vegetarianism," History Today 48,4 (4/98):33.
Benatar, D. "Why the naive argument against moral vegetarianism really is naive," Environmental Values 10,1 (2/01):103-12.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. "Feed your head," Nation (4/9/90):494-496.
Dietz, T.; A.S. Frisch, L. Kalof, P.C. Stern & others. "Values & vegetarianism: an exploratory analysis," Rural Sociology 60,3 (fall 95):533-42.
Dwyer, J.T. "Nutritional consequences of vegetarianism," Annual Review of Nutrition 11 (1991):61-91.
Egonsson, D. "Kant's vegetarianism," Journal of Value Inquiry 31,4 (12/97):473-83.
Guerrini, A. "A diet for a sensitive soul: vegetarianism in 18th-c. England," 18th Century Life 23,2 (5/99):34-42.
Jabs, J.; J. Sobal & C.M. Devine. "Managing vegetarianism: identities, norms & interactions," Ecology of Food & Nutrition 39,5 (2000): 375-94.
Janda, S. & P.J. Trocchia. "Vegetarianism: towards a greater understanding," Psychology & Marketing 18, 12 (12/01):1205-40.
Leneman, L. "The awakened instinct: vegetarianism & the women's suffrage movement in Britain," Women's History Review 6,2 (1997):271-87.
Ouedraogo, A.P. "Food & the purification of society: Dr. Paul Carton & vegetarianism in interwar France," Social History of Medicine 14,2 (8/01):223-45.
Pluhar, E.B. "On vegetarianism, morality & science: a counter reply," Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 6,2 (1993): 185-213.
__________. "Vegetaranism, morality, & science revisited," Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics 7,1 (1994):77-82.
Tull, H.W. "The killing that is not killing: Hindu vegetarianism in India. Men, cattle, & the origins of non-violence (ahimsa) in the Vedic sacrifice," Indo-Iranian Journal 39,3 (7/96):223-44.
White, R. & E. Frank. "Health effects & prevalence of vegetarianism," Western Journal of Medicine 160,5 (5/94):465-71.
Whorton, J.C. "Historical development of vegetarianism," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 59,5 (5/94):1103-9.
Worsley, A. & G. Skrzypiec. "Teenage vegetarianism: beauty or the beast?" Nutrition Research 17,3 (3/97):391-404.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Belasco, Warren. Appetite For Change: How the Counterculture Took the Food Industry, 1966-1988 (NY: Pantheon, 1989).
Berman, Louis Arthur. Vegetarianism & the Jewish Tradition (NY: Ktav, 1982).
Berry, Rynn. Food for the Gods: Vegetarianism & the World's Religions: Essays, Conversations, Recipes (NY: Pythagorean, 1998).
Dombrowski, Daniel A. The Philosophy
of Vegetarianism (Amherst MA: U. Massachusetts, 1984).
Fox, Michael Allen. Deep Vegetarianism (Philadelphia: Temple U, 1999).
Giehl, Dudley. Vegetarianism, a Way of Life (NY: Harper & Row, 1979).
Gregerson, Jon. Vegetarianism, A History (Fremont CA: Jain, 1994).
Hill, John Lawrence. The Case for Vegetarianism: Philosophy for a Small Planet (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).
LeBlanc, Ronald Denis. Vegetarianism in Russia: The Tolstoyan Legacy (Pittsburgh PA: U. Pittsburgh, 2001).
Marcus, Erik. Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating (Ithaca NY: McBooks, 2000).
Maurer, Donna. Vegetarianism: Movement or Moment? (Philadelphia: Temple U, 2002).
Rosen, Steven. Holy Cow: The Hare Krishna Contribution to Vegetarianism & Animal Rights (NY: Lantern, 2004).
Spencer, Colin. The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism (Hanover NH: U. Press of New England, 1996).
Walters, Kerry S. & Lisa Portmess (eds.) Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer (Albany: SUNY, 1999).
__________ (eds.) Religious Vegetarianism: From Hesiod to the Dalai Lama (Albany: SUNY, 2001).
Young, Richard Alan. Is God a Vegetarian? Christianity, Vegetarianism, & Animal Rights (Chicago: Open Court, 1999).