Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals, Roanne van Voorst
Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals, Roanne van Voorst
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Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals
The Future of Food

Author: Roanne van Voorst

Narrator: Eileen Stevens

Unabridged: 7 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/28/2021


Synopsis

Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissman’s bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past.

Though increasing numbers of people know that eating meat is detrimental to our planet’s health, many still can’t be convinced to give up eating meat. But how can we change behavior when common arguments and information aren’t working? Acclaimed anthropologist Roanne Van Voorst changes the dialogue. In Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals, she shifts the focus from the present looking forward to the future looking back—imagining a world in which most no longer use  animals for food, clothing, or other items. By shifting the viewpoint, she offers a clear and compelling vision of what it means to live in a world without meat.A massive shift is already taking place—everything van Voorst covers in this book has already been invented and is being used today by individuals and small organizations worldwide. Hopeful and persuasive, Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals offers a tantalizing vision of what is not only possible but perhaps inevitable. 

About Roanne van Voorst

Roanne van Voorst is a futures-anthropologist (Ph.D.), writer, (Tedx)speaker and moderator. She is president of the Dutch Future Society and works as a lecturer and researcher in Sustainable Humanity and Futures-Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Her work has taken her all around the world: from Inuit settlements in Greenland, to Indonesian villages, to sex doll brothels in Europe and Virtual-Reality worlds. www.roannevanvoorst.com


Reviews

Great Message – Delivery Needs Refinement Once Upon A Time We Ate Animals is a book around how mass action needs to take place to save the world, and everyone should be vegan. There were very graphic descriptions of animal abuse. The book mainly covered animal cruelty, animal rights, and some weird s......more

Goodreads review by Jente

Mijn zus is veganist en raadde me aan dit boek te lezen. Ik verwachtte een populairwetenschappelijk boek, maar ik kwam bedrogen uit. Het is vooral een pleidooi voor een veganistische levensstijl (waar ik zeker achter sta). Maar het wetenschappelijk niveau van dit boek is vrij laag. In het tweede hoo......more

Goodreads review by Rennie

It’s getting harder to ignore the ethical issues behind what we eat and what it’s doing to the environment, as well it should be. It’s something I really struggle with, because it’s very tough to argue at this point that our consumption of meat and animal products isn’t detrimental and unsustainable......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

Thank you, NetGalley, Roanne van Voorst, and HarperOne Books for the opportunity to read this book! “It is perhaps the greatest paradox of being human, simply because of our humanity, we often behave inhumanely.” ONCE UPON A TIME WE ATE ANIMALS Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals by Roanne van Voorst will......more

Goodreads review by Alfredo

Uma visão liberal sobre como promover o veganismo dentro do capitalismo.......more