Moran Victoria - Main Street vegan : everything you need to know to eat healthfully and live compassionately in the real world

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VEGAN

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

TO EAT HEALTHFULLY

AND LIVE COMPASSIONATELY

IN THE REAL WORLD

Victoria Moran

with Adair Moran

JEREMY P. TARCHER/PENGUIN

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Copyright 2012 by Victoria Moran
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moran, Victoria, date.

Main Street vegan : everything you need to know to eat healthfully and live compassionately in the real world / Victoria Moran, with Adair Moran.

p. cm.

ISBN: 978-1-101-58062-2

1. Vegan cooking. 2. VegetarianismMoral and ethical aspects. 3. Animal welfareMoral and ethical aspects. 4. Cookbooks. I. Moran, Adair. II. Title.

TX837.M6755 2012 2012001350

641.5636dc23

Printed in the United States of America

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Book design by Meighan Cavanaugh

The recipes contained in this book are to be followed exactly as written. The publisher is not responsible for your specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision. The publisher is not responsible for any adverse reactions to the recipes contained in this book.

While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers, Internet addresses, and other contact information at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

ALWAYS LEARNING

PEARSON

To the animals Ive known by name

and to all those who have no names

This is a book about philosophy, food, and the wonderful results that legions of everyday vegans, myself included, have experienced as a result of eating a plant-based, predominantly whole-foods, diet. The views I express here are for informational and educational purposes only. They are not intended as treatment for any malady, and they are not to be taken as a substitute for the advice of a licensed health care professional.

W eve all heard it: Vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Priusor not driving at all? Its no wonder were seeing everybody from Hollywood A-listers to movers and shakers in business and politics trade in their George Foreman grills for Jack LaLanne juicers.

Unfortunately, most people dont have movie stars on speed dial to consult when theyre contemplating a vegan lifestyle, but thats okay because every day people all over the place are waking up to the wonders of eating real food. Food that grew. Food that didnt kill anybody to get here and that wont kill you from eating it. Your birthright is to be lean, strong, and noble. Youre meant to walk out onto the world stage, or into your high school reunion, and elicit admiration. We all are, and taking charge of our food choices can be a surprising step in that direction.

Without claiming our power at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, we eat the food that Big Agra wants us to eat, and then need the drugs that Big Pharma wants us to buy. If we reflexively quash any uneasy feelings we have about what happens to the animals we eat, we lose a sliver of our humanity. How we relate to our plate is also a political actnot political in the sense of liberal or conservative but, rather, as it relates to the good of all concerned. Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf. Youll learn in this book how the production of animal foods uses resources we dont have to spare, and how it contributes to climate change and world hunger. On top of that, each one of us who stays healthy makes health care less of a crisis. And when you make an informed decision about the way youll eat, instead of having that decision made by corporate interests and government bodies that are sometimes beholden to corporate interests, you claim an important piece of the freedom that somebody died to protect.

The mega-businesses that dont care what they sell you as long as you buy it do not want you to know that a whole-foods vegan diet is a near-guarantee that youll wind up healthy, empowered, and at your prom-night weight for the rest of your life. They want it under wraps that heart disease would all but disappear if everyone ate this way, and that the in cidence of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, Alzheimers disease, and many types of cancer would be slashed as well.