Comfortably Unaware
What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet
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Publisher Description
"I urge you to read Comfortably Unaware, to think about its message, discuss it with your friends—and start to change the world, one bite, one meal, one diet at a time." — Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, UN Messenger of Peace
Tackle the crucial issue of global depletion alongside Dr. Richard Oppenlander, as it relates to food choice. His straightforward research and stark mental images demonstrate the daily footprint we're leaving on the environment, and thus encourages us to act with the best interest of all living things. Understanding the reality and consequences of your diet will help you understand how to ensure the health and well-being of our planet, and of ourselves. Shake off complacency and stop being comfortably unaware.
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Oppenlander's powerful message that "our current food choices detrimentally affect climate change and global warming more so than do all the cars, planes, trucks, buses and trains used worldwide," and therefore veganism is the key to our survival isn't well served by his presentation. While he appears to have shocking facts on his side ("80 percent of the world's starving children live in countries where food surpluses are fed to animals that are then killed and eaten by more well-off individuals in developed countries"), he makes gratuitous arguments that undermine his own credibility. Rather than simply applaud Al Gore's work on the risk that energy consumption poses for Earth's future, the author accuses him of avoiding truths inconvenient to him, because of "ties to the current livestock industry" an allegation that Oppenlander admits is only speculative. More serious is Oppenlander's glossing over the pragmatics of how any politician could make headway on the issue in a post Citizens United political landscape. The billions of dollars the meat industry would pour into opposing any effort to ban meat consumption goes unaddressed, as does the challenge of changing the thinking of people whose ancestors have been carnivores for hundreds of thousands of years.
