Why You Don’t Need Meat

The book that started Britain's vegetarian revolution

Why You Don’t Need Meat was first published in the United Kingdom, where it quickly became a runaway Number 1 bestseller. Written with a charming mixture of science, humor, and ethics, this completely revised and updated edition will give you all the facts you need about the meat you eat—both from a humane perspective and as a basis for getting and maintaining a healthy body.

“This excellent book will kindle doubts in those still regularly eating animals” – Peter D Wood, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

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For many years now some of us have been saying “stop eating animals” because we know that it is pointless and cruel. My friend Peter Cox is one of those who has been saying it loudest. This is a book that will change and save lives. I hope that yours is one of them – Linda McCartney

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The Back Story

“As a kid growing up in isolated East Anglia, animals were my friends and – as George Bernard Shaw once remarked – I don’t eat my friends!

It was far from easy. I didn’t know there were other people like me – in fact, I didn’t hear the word “vegetarian” until I was well into my teens. My parents thought I was going to die through lack of flesh consumption, and other schoolkids simply thought I was a total weirdo (maybe not so wrong there…?)

Over time, I began to learn that far from being an extreme diet, it’s the best you can eat: obviously from the animals’ point of view, but also for your own health and that of the planet. People slowly began to ask me for tips, advice and accurate information… which is how the idea for this book first arose!”

Peter Cox

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Peter Cox

Peter Cox is the author of the UK No. 1 bestseller “Why You Don’t Need Meat” (US title “You Don’t Need Meat”) and with Linda McCartney author of the UK No. 1 bestseller and worldwide multi-million bestseller “Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking”. Together with Peggy Brusseau he’s written many more national bestsellers. He founded Litopia way back when the ‘net was still a pretty nice place.

Litopia still is