相信许多人一生当中所阅读的书,多多少少有几本是自己觉得最受用,或者对自己最有影响的。同样的,许多人走上素食之路,也可能来自一本书的影响。「蕃茄小屋」的「阅读时间」单元,这期特地透过网路做一份「影响你成为素食者的一本书」调查,试着为大家搜寻出足以影响大家成为素食者的一些好书。我们采用的方式是透过网路,在几个主要素食论坛 (包括美国、英国、澳洲、台湾、大陆、香港、加拿大等国家),进行这项调查,对象没有年龄、性别或国家的限制,在为期三个星期的调查之后,总计有56个人回复。

  这次的调查,共有49本书被回复者认为是影响他们成为素食者的书。其中被最多人选的是由约翰•罗宾斯所着的「新世纪饮食(Diet For A New America)」,总共有9个人选它。紧接在后的是有7个人选的「纯素饮食—饮食的新道德观(Vegan: the new ethic of eating)」。同被6个人选为影响他们成为素食者的书分别是「速食共和国--速食的黑暗面(Fast Food Nation)」与「忿怒的牛仔(Mad Cowboy)」。

  49本书中,纯粹是华人写的,只有三本,分别是赵来发写的「素食宣言」、雷久南博士写的「身心灵整体健康100问」以及惠心言所写的「饮食真光——回归田园美粮」,其他多是英文书籍。
附表是这次调查的总整理,部分书籍的后面,附有提案人为何受该书影响的原因,相信有助于加深大家对该书的印象。虽然这次调查的结果,华人所着的书籍佔少数,但部分英文书籍也有中文翻译,相信也可以解大家的求知慾。

  每个人对于好书的定义不同,每个人会受影响的书也可能不同,这次调查的目的,则是希望集众人之力,汇集一些大家认为好的书,供大家日后自己阅读或介绍他人阅读时有所参考啰 : )

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书名 作者 出版国家 出版社 提案人的意见 票数

Diet For A New America

新世纪饮食

John Rbbins

约翰•罗宾斯/着; 张国蓉、涂世玲/ 译

U.S.

台湾

H.J. Kramer; Reprint edition (April 1, 1998)

琉璃光出版社

kittyk60 : 对于深爱动物的我来说,影响我最深刻的文字,不是文字,而是图片。在我看过那些残忍的图片之后,我从不再吃肉。The author was expected to take over and run the Baskin-Robbins ice cream company, but declined. One good quote of many: “It’s not the killing of the animals that is the chief issue here, but rather the unspeakable quality of the lives they are forced to live. The purveyors of the Great American Food Machine don’t want you to know how the animals have lived whose flesh, milk and eggs end up in your body. ...the health consequences of consuming the products of such a system,..its environmental impact.
For me, an animal lover, the most inspiring words were not words, but pictures. I never wanted meat again after seeing them.

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Fast Food Nation

 

速食共和国--速食的黑暗面

Eric Schlosser

艾瑞克.西洛瑟/着
陈琇玲/译

U.K. & U.S.

台湾

Perennial; 1st Perenn edition (January 8, 2002)

 

天下杂志

Ashes : Fast Food Nation turned me from veggie to vegan. I knew in the back of my mind that it was all interconnected and that the milk and eggs I was consuming were still part of the whole meat deal but the descriptions in that book just made me realise that I needed to do the right thing and stop compromising.
「速食共和国」让我从一般素食转为完全的素食。我知道我所喝的牛奶与所吃的蛋依旧是整个肉中的一部分,而且互相关联的。但本书中的叙述让我了解我必须做出正确的选择,并且不再找藉口妥协。

Fringy:I was already veg, but started striving to vegan when I started realizing that the dairy cow’s life isn’t one bit easier than a meat cows, nor an egg layer’s life easier than that bread and raised for it’s meaty breast. Probably worse.
我早已是一位素食者,但当我了解一只生产奶的牛,牠的生活并没有比一只做为肉品的牛好到那里,甚至一只专做生蛋的鸡,也没有比被养来做吃的鸡好到那里,也许更差时,我开始努力成为一为全素的素食者。

Spiralsrcool: I read “Fast Food Nation” around the time that I began considering a change in lifestyle and diet. It had a big impact on me at the time. It did not just inspire the vegetarian in me but also the environmentalist and humanitarian.
我读「速食共和国」时,是我正在思考生活与饮食上做改变的时候。这本书给我很大的冲击。它不仅影响我成为一位素食者,并且让我成为一位环境保护论者与人道主义者。

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Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat Howard Lyman and Glen Merzer U.S. Scribner; (September 1998) Veg-gril: I found it a really eye opening & powerful book.
这是一本令人开眼界与具说服力的书。

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Animal Liberation

动物解放

Peter Signer

彼得•辛格/着
孟祥森、钱永祥/ 译

U.S.

台湾

Ecco; (December 18, 2001)


关怀生命协会或可从”中国素食网”下载
http://www.veggiesky.com

Dark Horse : Because it put into words the feelings that I had always had, but for some reason, had not put into practise. And it opened my eyes to procedures done on non-human animals by human beings that I had never imagined in my worst nightmares.
这本书將我原先已有但确未付诸实践的感受写成文字,而且它让我看到人们对待动物的可怕过程。

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Diet For A Small Planet


一座小行星的新饮食方式

Frances Moore Lappe


法兰西斯 拉佩与 安娜 拉佩/着
陈正芬/译

U.S.

台湾

Ballantine Books; Rev&Updtd edition (February 1, 1992)

大块文化

SairyFan : the statistics about how much grain and water it takes to produce a pound of beef flesh astonished me - how wasteful! I was a college student majoring in economics at the time, so the economic implications of feeding more people with grain vs meat impressed me as well.
我很惊讶书中对于要生产一磅的牛肉所需要的谷粒与水的统计。当时我是一位主修经济的大学生,因此要养活更多的人与谷粒及肉的对比,让我印象深刻。

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素食宣言 赵来发
香港
聚贤馆 士丹利: 我开始素食时,无意中在在二手书展发现这本书,便中买回来细心阅读。作者由不同的角度写出素食因由和种类,亦谈及素食与社会、环保、人际关系、健康、经济的关系。对刚茹素的人士来说,这本书让他对素食有较深入的认识,亦能扩阔对素食的视野,加强对素食的信念和坚定,是我踏上素食之路启蒙老师。
该书出版至今已超过十年,每次重新翻阅时,亦带给我另一翻体会和启示。

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身心灵整体健康100问 雷久南博士 台湾 琉璃光出版社 miluk : 一次在素菜馆发现了这一本书,读后有如在头顶开了一片新天地
访客: I agree with Mulik. This is the best book I have ever read and I think everyone should read the book to have a general understanding of health (pyschologically and spiritually )
我同意milk的看法。这是我所阅读过最好的一本书,我想每个人都应该读这本书来对心灵健康有一个一般性的认识。
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How it All Vegan !: Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet Sarah Kramer, Tanya Barnard U.S. Arsenal Pulp Press; (September 1, 1999) Berna: I never really liked meats, and the thought of eating something that had a brain always bothered me, so I always ate very little meat. When I finally decided to go vegetarian, I was bothered by most of the veggie cookbooks I bought because there was so much dairy in them, and dairy just doesn’t really agree with me. I decided to find some vegan cookbooks to include more non-dairy veggie dishes in my diet. I found HIAV and I just LOVED it. I liked it because it didn’t preach and wasn’t pushy or difficult. It was fun and easy, and everything I’ve made my omni hubby has loved. I bought GOV sight unseen, and I love it, too.
我从未真正喜欢过吃肉,而且吃含有头脑的东西一直困扰着我,因此我总是吃很少的肉。当我决定吃素时,许多素食食谱书中包含许多牛奶制品,让我非常困扰,我不是很喜欢牛奶制品。因此,我决定找一些没有含奶制品的全素食谱。我找到了这本书,而且我喜爱极了,因为它不没有说教,而且没有压力或阅读难度。内容有趣且容易阅读,我所做的菜,我那吃肉的老公都喜爱吃。

2
My Year of Meats Ruth L. Ozeki U.S. Penguin Books; (March 1, 1999) Harpua : It’s about this journalist, photographer girl who works for this beef company to film a tv show called “My American Wife” where “happy Americans” eat beef. Each episode they feature a new beef recipe. She ends up on this farm to film a family, and finds out that they are illegally using a hormone on their cows, and there is a little girl who lives there and she has developed breasts because of the hormones. This gets her thinking and she ends up being a vegetarian. VERY good book.
这是一本关于一位女记者兼摄影师为一家牛肉工厂拍摄一部名为:「我的美国太太」的电视影集的故事,其中快乐的美国人吃牛肉。每一集当中,他们计划端出一份新的牛肉食谱来吸引大家。这位女记者选择一家农场的家庭进行拍摄,结果发现他们非法使用荷尔蒙来饲养他们的牛只,有一位住那里的小女孩,因为吃到荷尔蒙造成胸部的发育。这引发她开始思考这一系列的问题,最后决定成为一为素食者。很棒的一本书。

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Why You Don’t Need Meat Peter Cox U.S. Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition (June 1, 2002) SantaCruzDad: Well, I was already a vegetarian by this time, but an inspiring book for me back in the early 1980’s was “Why You Don’t Need Meat” by Peter Cox. It provided me with a lot of hard information to back up what I already felt was the right way to live but hadn’t always had all the facts at my disposal. It’s now in its umpteenth re-printing and still going strong 20 years later. Maybe I’ll treat myself to an up to date copy and re-read it.
我现在已是一位素食者,但影响我在1980时成为素食者的一本书是Peter Cox所写的「为何你不需要吃肉」。它提供我许多真实的资料,来支持我原以为正确但尚未付诸实行的生活之道。这本书在20年之后,已有数不清的再版,而且依然畅销。也许我会去买最新版,而且重读一遍。

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Animal Rights: A Very Short Introduction to Animal Rights David deGrazia U.K.

Oxford University Press; 1st edition (May 1, 2002) Donnamatrix: I had forgotten this, but my boyfriend (who has a much better memory than me for these things) reminded me that the book that pretty much kicked everything off for me, veganism-wise, was David deGrazia’s Very Short Introduction to Animal Rights. I don’t have it on me for the publication details, but I don’t suppose they matter. Available from all good book shops! It’s just a succinct volume containing all these arguments and it was the section on the reality of dairy and egg farming that shocked me and got me thinking.
这是一本非常简要的书,里面包含所有关于动物权的议题,其中关于牛奶与蛋的生产农场的真实内容令我非常惊讶,进而让我做进一步的思考。

1
Optimum Nutrition Bible


最佳营养学指南

Dr Patrick Holford

派翠克 霍尔福德/着
徐玲/译

U.K.

中国

Piatkus Books

中国友谊出版公司

Fruitbat: He does not actually promote veganism but points out the advantages to all different types of diet and all the good things are vegan things. He discourages dairy as unnatural and unhealthy, also the consumption of red meat and excessive consumption of any meat or fish for reasons that he explains related to health. This book made me resolve to recover healthily from anorexia and benefit from the best health possible which seemed to me to be a vegan life. I realised reading this book that the things that made me feel good about being vegeterian were actually the things that were vegan so I just converted from dairy milk and yoghurts and milk to soya alternatives and once I got more knowledgeable then I realised about animals derivatives in food etc.
作者并没有真正的倡议全素主义,只指出不同饮食的优点与全素饮食的所有好处。他不鼓励奶制品,因为不天然且不健康,而且吃红肉与吃过量的肉与鱼是造成健康问题的所在。这本书让我找到我厌食症的解决方法,并发现对我来说全素的生活对我是最健康的。我发现阅读这本书让我觉得要成为素食者最好是全素,因此,我將原本喝牛奶与优格,改以喝豆浆来替代。而且当我了解愈多,我愈发发现食物中含有许多肉类的衍生产品。

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Vegan: the new ethic of eating Erik Markus U.S. CyberParent   7
Becoming Vegetarian :
The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Vegetarian Diet

Vesanto Melina, Brenda Davis U.S. John Wiley & Sons; Rev&Updtd edition (March 7, 2003)   3
Food Revolution John Robbins U.S. Conari Press; (July 11, 2001)   2
Becoming Vegan : The complete guide to adopting a healthy plant-based diet. Vesanto Melina, Vesanto, R.D. Melina, Brenda Davis U.S. Book Publishing Company (TN); (September 1, 2000)   2
Eat to Live Joel Fuhrman U.S. Little, Brown; 1st edition (January 2, 2003)   2
The Case For Animal Rights Tom Regan U.S. University of California Press; Rep edition (March 1, 1985)   2
养生长壽秘笈   香港 香港素食慈善基金有限公司   1
为什么素食
(电子版)

http://www.vega
noutreach.org/w
hyvegan/chinese/

 

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吉檀迦利 泰戈尔着 中国 远方出版社
辽宁电子图书有限责任公司
当代世界出版社

  1
吉檀迦利 印度教圣典 印度     1
饮食真光——回归田园美粮 惠心言 香港 香港青文出版社有限公司   1
Abundant Living In The Coming Age Of The Tree Kathleen Jannaway U.K. the Movement for Compassionate Living( March 1991)   1
Being Vegetarian for Dummies  Suzanne Havala U.S. For Dummies; (March 13, 2001)   1
A Compassionate Heart Clare Amos U.K. Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd; (November 11, 2002)   1
Eternal Treblinka: Our treatment of animals and the holocaust Charles Patterson U.S. Lantern Books; (February 2002)   1
The Jungle Upton Sinclair U.S. Penguin   1
Animals Like Us Mark Rowlands U.K. & U.S Verso; (August 2002)   1
Empty Cages : Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights Tom Regan U.S. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; (January 1, 2004)   1

Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes - Lives and Lore from Buddha to the Beatles

经典蔬食名人厨房:从古希腊到摇滚披头四的自然饮食

Rynn Berry

 


雷恩.贝瑞/着
张倍萁/译

U.S.


台湾

Pythagorean Books; (September 1, 1993)

柿子文化

  1
Free The Animals : The story of the animal liberation front Ingrid Newkirk U.S. Lantern Books; 1st edition (October 21, 2000)   1
Fasting and Eating for Health : A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease Joel Fuhrman U.S. St. Martin's Griffin; (April 15, 1998)   1
Food Politics : How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture) Marion Nestle U.S. University of California Press; (March 4, 2002)   1
The Garden of Vegan : How It All Vegan Again! Tanya Barnard, Sarah Kramer U.S. Arsenal Pulp Press; (April 15, 2003)   1
Ishmael : An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Daniel Quinn U.S. Bantam ; Reissue edition (May 1, 1995)   1
Living Among Meat Eaters:
The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook

Carol J. Adams U.S. Three Rivers Press (CA); (November 6, 2001)   1
Practical Ethics Peter Singer U.K. Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (January 29, 1993)   1
Raising Vegan Children in a Non-vegan World Erin Pavlina U.S. VegFamily.com; (January 1, 2003)   1
Slaughterhouse Gail A Eisnitz U.S. Prometheus Books, New York, 1997   1
Scientific Basis for Vegetarianism William Harris,M.D. U.S. Nelson's Books   1
Vegan Vittles Joanne Stepaniak U.S. Book Publishing Company (TN); (August 1, 1996)   1
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari : A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny Robin Sharma U.S. HarperSanFrancisco; (April 2, 1999)   1
Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm:
The Myth of the Traditional Farm and the Shocking Truth About Animal Suffering in Today’s Agribusiness

C. David Coats; Michael W. Fox U.S. Crossroad Publishing Company; (1989)   1
The Vegetarian Way : total health for you and your family  Virginia Messina and Mark Messina. (1996) U.S. Three Rivers Press; (May 14, 1996)   1
The Vegetarian Revolution: A Commentary and Cookbook

素食革命─新世 纪烹饪

Giorgio Cerquetti, Giorgio Cerquitti

乔尔乔•契尔凯蒂/着


乔治亚.克魁提/ 着

U.S.


中国

台湾

Torchlight Publications; (January 1997)

陕西师范大学出版社

TRICOM(中天出版社)

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Why be a vegetarian Tej Sheth,
Jej Sheth

U.S. Jain Pub Co; (December 1, 1995)   1
Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?  Gary Francione U.S. Temple University Press; (November 12, 2000)   1