This year’s VeganMoFo 10-for-30 continues to be an fun and educational ride. We love creating Top 10 lists for our followers who in turn appreciate our efforts. Whether we’re recommending restaurants, recipes, travel tips or books, we’re on the case! And speaking of books, once again we’ve discovered another amazing title from the brilliant first-time author and Professor of Law at Cornell University, Sherry F. Colb.
We were lucky enough to meet and listen to Sherry speak at this year’s Farm Sanctuary New York Hoe Down. She’s as engaging a speaker as she is an author. Her book is a refreshingly honest and well thought out work, that gently erodes the barrier that hinders an understanding between the vegan and non-vegan community.
So, your assignment is to read today’s 10-for-30 Top 10 and to purchase Sherry Colb’s Mind If I Order The Cheeseburger?: And Other Questions People Ask Vegans. You won’t regret it!
On with the Top 10…
The Top 10 Reasons To Purchase Sherry Colb’s Mind If I Order The Cheeseburger? And Other Questions People Ask Vegans!
1. It’s a Well Researched, Though-provoking Read. Sherry uses logic and insight instead of emotion and anger to lay out a cogent argument for veganism.
2. It’s a Great Book to Give As a Gift To a Newly Minted Vegan or Non-vegan. This book will validate a new vegan’s life-changing choice and will enlighten non-vegans. Heck, it may even convert a few of them as well!
3. Sherry Uses Humor To Make Valid Points. Albeit you wouldn’t find this title in the humor section of your local bookstore, her book sneaks in some humorous observations from time to time.
4. It’s Balanced. It makes you look at both sides of the veganism argument. Sherry makes a point that many non-vegans are simply curious about our choices and their questions contain no malice.
5. It’s Non-threatening. Non-vegans will take to Sherry’s non-abrasive approach to having a robust discussion about choosing a plant-based diet and living as cruelty-free as possible.
6. It Tackles Tough Questions. Like any cause worth fighting for, veganism will come under fire from both cynics and well-intentioned, but uninformed naysayers. Sherry confidently dissects the thorniest of questions with surgeon-like precision.
7. Sherry’s Book Offers Clear Counterarguments. When vegans are asked difficult questions, we sometimes have difficulty articulating our answers. Mind If I Order The Cheeseburger?, dislodges rebuttals that may be stuck just below our cranium.
8. You’re Helping Our Community. By supporting vegan authors, stores, products, expos, etc, veganism will continue to spread!
9. The Book is Reasonable Priced. This book is less expensive than going to the movies. Besides, what’s playing these days? Meh!
10. Our Cats Recommend It. Two Avid readers, Mozzie and Connie are opinionated, tough critics who know a good book when they read one. Trust them, they’re never wrong.
If there’s been some particularly difficult questions that have been posed to you, we would love for you to list them them below. Arming yourself with clear and compelling explanations to the myriad of questions that you’ll most likely be asked at some point, is a useful way to make inroads for the case for veganism and to dispel the banal vegan stereotypes that still remain.
Missed any of our previous VeganMoFo 2014 posts? You now can catch up!