Comments on: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

By: Jett

Jett — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:22:54 +0000

This book was absolutely horrifying. I kept flipping back and forth, and couldn't believe what I was reading. While bringing about thoughts for a great cause--buying local; making your own; sustainability; etc., Kingsolver, with sadistic humor, walks us through the process of killing innocent animals for food. It's is absolutely shocking and sickening. In this century, the practice of killing animals for food is barbaric, and she proves where she stands on this issue. There are plenty of plant foods to sustain us all, without being cruel. Two thumbs down for Barbara Kinsolver. I used to be a fan. After reading this, I don't want to be associated in any way with this author. Rating: 1 / 5 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

By: Linda Trawnik

Linda Trawnik — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:40:10 +0000

If you are expecting the caliber of writing found in Poisonwood Bible don't get your hopes up and rush out to buy this one. It is a non fiction work describing in painful detail things like the life cycles of asparagus and acting as though you should be hanging on every word. For anyone other than a vegetable garden fantasist the only good purpose for this book is that maybe you won't need your Lunesta. Rating: 1 / 5 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

By: Kelly Callen Figiel

Kelly Callen Figiel — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:35:35 +0000

This book is one that I have not been able to put down, inspired me , and I recommended it to my three sisters. So why the one star... I'll get to that disappointment in a minute. For the first 280 pages I have loved this book. I loved the webpage. Talked about it nonstop with my husband and vegetarian in-laws. It shows how the local movement of food is necessary and needed by Americans. It inspired me to finally think of a way to use my 15 acres of unused pasture- heritage animals. I loved the commentary and at points laughed out loud. So the problem? On page 205 when Ms. Kingsolver pointed out the organic farmers "probably fo to church on Sunday but keep thier religion to themselves". This was not the problem. Unfortuately, she can not apply the same thing to herself and became offensive about the birth of Christ on page 280. Too bad. I will not read another page. Glad it was a library book. I can not recommend this one to anyone ever again. Rating: 1 / 5 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

By: Mark Henry

Mark Henry — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:56:36 +0000

If you are into this type of book-Mother Earth style organic guilt trip-then by all means buy it and enter into an emotional, ultra-biased flood of earth worshiping brain drano. If not then don't waste your money on this pretend manifesto. Buy some facts not some stream-of-conscious land-fill fodder. Rating: 1 / 5 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

By: Nom de Plume

Nom de Plume — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:32:35 +0000

is dangerous. I was all excited about this book, and maybe I'll still read it, but having an endorsement from Nina Planck makes me want to stay away, in case it promotes some of the same misinformation and lies that Nina loves so much. Rating: 1 / 5 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life