In this definitive and engaging guide to veganism, author Joanne Stepaniak fields questions from both friends and foes, explaining 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 array of compelling and useful topics -- from maintaining vegan convictions under social pressure to finding the hidden animal by-products in ingredients lists -- Joanne provides insight, reassurance, and guidance for the many difficult situations that vegans face in a non-vegan world.

Being Vegan answers questions about:

• The historical foundations and meaning of being vegan
• Incorporating vegan ethics into everyday life
• Dynamic harmlessness and the vegan philosophy
• Maintaining vegan principles in relationships with others
• Lifestyle challenges and choices
• Food and ingredients

If you or someone in your life has been searching for common-sense answers to the many questions about the vegan lifestyle, or wishing that someone would decipher perplexing philosophical concerns about veganism, Being Vegan is the ideal resource.

(Lowell House, 214 pages)