VEGANIST Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World

Freston’s sincere but problematic argument for a vegan diet is made to sound manipulative as delivered by Karen White. Freston’s information can be interesting, but her means for connecting her research to a platform for an exclusively vegan diet falls flat in places. White complicates matters with an emotionally laden delivery. A practical and subdued approach would have allowed the facts and ideas to stand for themselves. As a result, a book that has the potential to bring new demographics to the vegan lifestyle comes off as too much like propaganda for listeners to swallow. L.E. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2011]