- ISBN13: 9781605296449
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Product Description
In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the spectacular benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, from effortless weight loss to clear skin, off-the-chart energy, and smooth digestion. She explains how meat, fish, milk, and cheese—the very foods we’ve been taught to regard as the cornerstone of good nutrition—are actually the c… More >>
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The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet
Ms Silverstones book is very sweet. She is a very nice woman, trying hard. However, everyday she nastily kills many many organisms just by existing. Something must die so she can live. This is Nature of which we are a part. Yes, it is a cruel system but there it is. Being old and having known quite a few vegans, i will tell you that they all got sick eventually from lack of protein and other meat(beef,fowl,fish,etc) provided nutrients. We are omnivores because we need the nutrients provided in all those foods:grains, veggies, fruit, meats,etc.in a balance which varies from person to person. Now could we raise our food animals with compassion instead of the horror we allow now? Of course, and i wish we would and hope we do. But before you adopt Ms Silverstones plan or any other vegan diet, really think about about Nature, how it operates and how humans are of it and dependent on it for EVERYTHING. If we disappear Nature will go on. If Nature disappears we will not. As with all else, we should manage everything we do more carefully, certainly more compassionately but we can not divorce ourselves from
Nature and how it works. As George Carlin once said, The earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, if we become too hard for the earth to handle. The earth and Nature are bigger, stronger, etc etc etc than we will ever be. Natures plan need be our plan, even if one believes it cruel.
We are omnivores who require food from all food groups for optimal health.
Rating: 1 / 5
I got this book because of the Oprah interview. It was only later that I learned that Alicia Silverstone is a PETA member and spokeperson; and within a few pages I realized that the book is completely filled with political points of view and PETA propaganda.
C’mon Alicia! Why you didn’t mention you’re a peta member on Oprah??? Why did you hide it? You really got me and I wasted some money! These are very hard times for a lot of us you know… oh yeah you live in HOLLYWOOD!
(There are much better unbiased vegan books here in Amazon)
Rating: 1 / 5
I have mixed-feelings about this book. On one hand, it is presented nicely. The quality is great and there are pictures to go with some of her recipes. The recipes themselves are of decent quality and there are lots of helpful information bits. She brings up some good points about the modern day food industry.
On the other hand, it is hard to believe this much concentration and passion goes into not killing animals when people do it to un-born babies all the time. It is illogical. Having grown-up on a farm, I have been around and am compassionate towards animals; but, we did eat them.
I try to support humane treatment of animals, but I think she is a little overboard in her ideas that man was never meant to eat meat. I grant you, we probably eat too much of it and not enough plants, nuts and fruits.
The agenda I don’t recommend, but there is some good info and tasty recipes here.
Rating: 3 / 5
Take Skinny Bitch, water it down with metaphysical macrobiotic rehashing and toss in a handful of vague anecdotes and you will have The Kind Diet. The naive may enjoy this book, “flirt” with the diet for a week and stop once they fail to reach Silverstone’s promised nirvanna like bliss. The people with more than a few brain cells to rub together will see through the confirmation bias anecdotes and come away hungry for lack of credible evidence or substantial information.
Rating: 1 / 5
Man’s best friend is a beautiful and affectionate an ideal pet.
Cats are the same, we make up their names and our love for them is real.
Listen up, I gotta ask it, how can we be so cruel?
You say you care, that’s a lie.
My true compassion is for all living things
and not just the ones who are cute so I do what I can.
I wanna save lives and I’ve got a plan.
Under the table he’ll eat your dinner like the veggies we can’t stand.
What kind meal would he make? We don’t want to ask it.
Tradition is all that keeps him alive.
Listen up, I gotta ask it, how can we be so cruel?
You say you care, that’s a lie.
My true compassion is for all living things
and not just the ones who are cute so I do what I can.
I wanna save lives and I’ve got a plan.
Why am I so upset. Don’t even own a pet.
I am not trying to press my will.
I am not the first to say…THOU SHALT NOT KILL
Full is all we want to feel.
We eat to stay alive, but it’s their lives we steal.
I think we’d like to change, but most of us are stuck,
that’s why cats and dogs have ALL THE LUCK.
Rating: 5 / 5