Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

This book was a complete inspiration to get better connections with our food. As years go on, it seems we've gotten further and further away from thinking about where our food comes from. This completely dials you in to the locavore movement, and just enjoying cooking/gardening again or in a new light. A great read for anyone who cares about what they put in their body!

While the author makes many valid points about the benefits of consuming locally grown food, she is guilty of one (literally) fatal error: eating animals for food is neither necessary nor healthy for humans, the environment, or, of course, the animals themselves.

Moving from a vegetarian diet to a flesh-based diet is not progress, either physically or spiritually, and teaching children that slaughterhouses are bad, yet killing and eating animals whom they "know" is perfectly acceptable, is unconscionable.

Not only is our flesh-based diet destroying the planet, making excuses for and/or shielding ourselves from the true reality of unnecessary bloodshed desensitizes us and makes us less compassionate towards all types of suffering, human and otherwise. Anyone who can't admit that just doesn't want to face it.

Barbara Kingsolver has struck a wonderful balance among educating readers about gardening, slow food, food science and telling a great tale of a family's adventure of local eating. The recipes are great, too!

What a revelation to learn that we have all been anesthetized by the large corporations, whether they be the corporations that produce processed food, or the seed companies with their genetically modified terminator genes in the seeds.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and we have already made changes in our food shopping. Wish this great book were still available on audio CD.

This book is too constrained and confined. I have loved Kingsolver's other books- and I was so excited to get this. Very disappointed in the text.

I loved this book. A friend of mine told me it was the best thing she had read in the last year so I could not resist. I opened the book as I took off on a flight from the USA to Australia and closed it as we were headed in to land.

It's an easy well written book that chronicles a families experience as they choose to eat locally grown food for a year. It's a nice story about family life, scattered with some delicious recipes but it's also a really interesting look at or modern world and our screwed up relationship with food.

I suspect that the environmental challenges and the economic ones will have many people forced into a situation where they have to reconsider how they eat. This book will definitely be useful. However if you're reconsidering your own lifestyle, relationship with food and your family life this book is a really good pointer to another way. Thoroughly enjoyable