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  <title><![CDATA[The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;B&gt;The best-selling author of &lt;I&gt;When Elephants Weep&lt;/I&gt; explores our relationship with the animals we call food.&lt;/B&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and the environment. It raises questions to make us conscious of the decisions behind every bite we take: What effect does eating animals have on our land, waters, even global warming? What are the results of farming practices&#8212;debeaking chickens and separating calves from their mothers&#8212;on animals and humans? How does the health of animals affect the health of our planet and our bodies? And uniquely, as a psychoanalyst, Masson investigates how denial keeps us from recognizing the animal at the end of our fork&#8212;think pig, not bacon&#8212;and each culture's distinctions among animals considered food and those that are forbidden. &lt;I&gt;The Face on Your Plate&lt;/I&gt; brings together Masson's intellectual, psychological, and emotional expertise over the last twenty years into the pivotal book of the food revolution.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a straightforward argument for why people should start eating a vegan diet, cutting out eggs and dairy products as well as meat and fish. In addition to the cruelty of &quot;factory farm&quot; food production, Masson also discusses the environmental damage caused by raising animals such as c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37301951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is a thinker of considerable originality, a writer of rather modest talent, and a man of strong opinions who does not suffer from a lack of self confidence in the correctness of those opinions. Masson, a complex and fascinating character, is an accomplished Sanskrit scholar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72678318">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book proves one thing via two means.  The quality of the writing and the actual content reveal that Masson is a better reader than a writer.  (Note: he wrote many books and this is the only one of his which I have read)  The dips into psychoanalysis were interesting and the chapter about denial...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69324680">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the vast ocean of books that are currently in vogue regarding the horrors of eating any form of animal product, be it meat, cheese, eggs, this is the one book I didn't want to hurl against the wall.  Will I become a vegan or even a vegetarian?  No, I'm comfortable with my diet and feel no need to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61121464">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always like it when someone clues me in about the truth of anything. That way I can be sure I'm not about to read something incredibly biased and selectively researched.<br/><br/>Masson is a vegan. He wants you to be vegan, too. He thinks that this will solve a lot of the world's problems. He ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64185249">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised to reach the end of this book and discover this author is 68 years old; the entire book is written in such a nimbus of glorious naivete, that I felt positively old and jaded in comparison.  It's nice that he believes that if we outlaw the commercial slaughter of animals for food that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61024410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is being marketed as Fast Food Nation meets Omnivore's Dilemma, and having read both aforementioned works I was tempted to read it. It was beckoning to me from the new Non-Fiction section of my library and I was caught off guard to see a book I would actually consider reading at this libra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66288655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am not a vegetarian or vegan, but this book definitely gives me pause and makes me consider....  Actually in the last few years the taste of meat has not been pleasant to me.  Animal lover that I am, I dont know why I have continued eating sentient beings.  This book gets down to the nuts and bolt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63460178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Masson lays out moral, ethical, and practical arguments against eating animals and animal products in a calm, compassionate way. However, I am not sure that the author will reach people who are truly unaware of how their Chick-fil-a arrived on their plate. My guess is that at least 75% of the people...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63659049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe I'll become a vegetarian after this book...who knows...I have seen those awful PETA videos which did disturb me and I do think about the animals but I still haven't stopped eating meat. As long as I dont see the meat being prepared, It doesnt really bother me. I dont really think about it... I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50856846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently reread <em><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2116329.Brideshead_Revisited">Brideshead revisited</a></em> by Evelyn Waugh. It is a story I return to every few years through either Waugh’s novel or the excellent 1981 television <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/bridesheadre/bridesheadre.htm">miniseries</a>. (Ignore this year’s cinematic adaptation, it is not worth your time.) <em>Brideshead revisited</em> is about the Catholic concept of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50654000">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An eye opening account of our factory farms. I've been a vegetarian for almost ten years, after reading this I'm considering becoming vegan. The animals used for producing animal products are treated worse than the ones simply raised for their meat. Although, my main reason for being a vegetarian is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62162451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found the book insightful and a quick read.  A few times I had to put it down to give myself a breather because I found the things that we do to animals are so horrible.<br/><br/>While I already didn't eat cows, chickens, or pigs prior to reading this, I am changing my diet to cut out all seafoo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49270988">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first picked up this book I thought I already knew everything there was to know on the issue. I was wrong. Especially on the fish chapter of the book. I'm not really into fish. They're so strange, so different, but I respect them and I learned a lot about them. For instance, We share 85% of o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36773182">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While there is a great deal of valuable information about the production of animal based protein, the content shifts from investigative to somewhat preachy.  I believe in totally agree with the need for  &quot;informed consent&quot; and that people understand the environmental, social and moral cost...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61345421">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 14 03:27:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 14 03:31:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is not too enlightening if you have already read The Omnivore's Dilemma, or any other book that looks at what we eat. While I think the author has a valid lifestyle to promote (I am vegetarian), his argument loses might when he uses overly passionate and borderline inflammatory language to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63406952">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author presents the facts: of meat production, of meat eating V. health - the reasons why we should go vegan. What I hadn't known before reading this is the global change effects which meat production has on the planet. It also helps to be reminded of the horrors these poor creatures suffer - an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62342421">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 19 10:00:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 27 22:25:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Am I going to become a vegan after reading this book?  Possibly.  But it won't be because of this book.  Frankly, after reading it I would be more disposed to become an activist for cleaning up the food industry (well, selfishly the parts that make cheese and butter anyway) rather than give up on it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53228534">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 31 13:32:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe some people like being preached at, but I prefer a more balanced point of view.  I didn't have a problem with much of what the author was saying but I couldn't help but think that if I met him in a bar I might fight him.  Too much high-horse, not enough rationality.  Set this one down before I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69591719">more...</a>]]></body>
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