Being Vegan by Joanne Stepaniak, M.S.Ed.

Rating: 4.0

What it's about:
In this definitive guide to veganism, an often misunderstood lifestyle choice, renowned activist and award-winning on-line columnist Joanne Stepaniak fields questions from both friends and foes, describing how compassion, kindness, and respect for all animals-including human beings-can be thoughtfully and practically incorporated into day-to-day living. Tackling a wide range of difficult, useful, and engaging topics-from maintaining vegan convictions under social pressure to finding the hidden animal by-products in ingredients a lists Joanne provides insight, reassurance, and answers for the many difficult questions that vegans face in a non-vegan world.
-taken from Barnes&Noble.com

My thoughts:
Being Vegan answers a lot of questions about the vegan lifestyle. The book is put together in a question and answer format. Joanne Stepaniak is an award-winning columnist and there are many different questions brought up in this book that she answers with feeling and conviction. The book examines what it means to be vegan: morals and philosophy, what to do with your old non-vegan products (leather, wool, etc.), relationships with non-vegans, what to do about insect infestations, societal pressures for vegans in a non-vegan world and many other issues. This is a good read for vegans or anyone else who is interested in a compassionate way of living. "Vegan tenets are relatively simple: Do the least harm and the most good."