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37. “Top Ten Drugs of 2001,” Pharmacy Times, April 2002; 68(4), pp. 10–15.
38. Mickey Z., “Pills a Go-Go,” VegNews, March–April 2003, p. 12.
Chapter 12—Some Objections Answered
1. Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution (New York: Penguin, 1939).
2. Jim Mason, An Unnatural Order: Why We Are Destroying the Planet and Each
Other (New York: Continuum, 1993), p. 72. See also Donna Hart and Robert W.
Sussman, Man the Hunted: Primates, Predators, and Human Evolution (New York:
Pereseus, 2005), p. 10.
3. Hart and Sussman, p. 244. According to these anthropologists, early humans such
as Australopithecus (2.5–7 million years ago) “depended mainly on fruits, herbs,
grasses, and seeds, and gritty foods such as roots, rhizomes, and tubers. A very small
proportion of [their] diet was made up of animal protein; mainly social insects (ants
and termites) and, occasionally, small vertebrates captured opportunistically.”
4. Mason, p. 70. According to fossil analysis carried out by M. Teaford and P. Ungar,
“The early hominids were not dentally preadapted to meat—they simply did not
have the sharp, reciprocally concave shearing blades necessary to retain and cut such
foods.” (“Diet and the Evolution of the Earliest Hominids,” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Science 97 (25): 13, p. 511.)
5. Ibid., p. 81.
6. Hart and Sussman, p. 190.
7. Plutarch, “On Eating Flesh,” Moralia, William Watson Goodwin, ed. (London: S.
Low, Son, and Marston, 1870), Volume 5, Tract 1.
8. Peter D’Adamo, Eat Right for Your Type (New York: Putnam, 1996).
9. For an overview of many of these, see Steven Rosen, Diet for Transcendence:
Vegetarianism and the World Religions (Badger, CA: Torchlight, 1997).
10. Keith Akers, The Lost Religion of Jesus (New York: Lantern Books, 2000), p. 117.
11. See Matthew 15:11 through 15:20 for entire relevant passage.
12. Matthew 15:19.
13. Gary Zukav, Seat of the Soul (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), p. 276.
14. Ibid., p. 278.
15. See Marjorie Spiegel, The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery
(New York: Mirror Books, 1999) for more on the treatment of black slaves as animal
livestock in the standard practices of extreme confinement in transport, family
destruction, branding, mutilation, and domination. See Sam Keen, Faces of the
Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile Imagination (San Francisco: Harper & Row,
1986) as well as his PBS documentary of the same name for more on how we
humans have dehumanized people we intended to systematically harm (such as
slaves and enemies), seeing them as sub-human—as animals. Keen shows, for
example, how Nazi propaganda films equated Jewish people with rats, and U.S.
World War II propaganda films and posters portrayed Japanese people as hordes
of beetles, among other instances.
16. Georgio Cerquetti, The Vegetarian Revolution (Badger, CA: Torchlight, 1997), p. 31.
17. Ibid., p. 30.
18. Howard Lyman, Mad Cowboy (New York: Scribner, 1998), p. 125.
19. See Lynn Jacobs, Waste of the West, for a thorough discussion and reporting of the
disastrous effects of cattle ranching in the American West. See also Howard Lyman,
“Bovine Planet,” in Mad Cowboy, pp. 121–153.
Chapter 13—Evolve or Dissolve
1. Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger (New York: The New Press, 2002), p. 1.