April 25, 2025
Whether you’re just starting out on a compassionate journey or have made a longer commitment to dietary change, it’s always good to keep learning. Getting more details on issues related to plant-based eating can help cement your resolve to continue down that pathway. It may also help in answering questions from friends and family. Facts are important — and they are on our side.
Regular Opportunities to Learn Through CAA
The Impact of Diet on Nonhuman Animals
Throughout the year, CAA offers regular opportunities to learn about the impact of diet on nonhuman animals. This includes tours of sanctuaries, petition campaigns, and outreach events. We also periodically sponsor events that educate on the health benefits of a plant-based diet such as our talk by Dr. Greger. He spoke about his book How Not to Age, which details the health benefits of a whole foods plant-based diet.
The Impact of Diet on the Planet
Another area where CAA provides information is on the environmental issues related to plant-based eating. We hope you caught our Documentary and Social Action night last year. We also do outreach at various Earth Day/climate-focused events throughout the year.
Books, Blogs, and Films Are Great Places to Learn
Luckily, there are also lots of books, blogs, and films out there that can provide the information you seek, so that the learning can always continue. A quick internet search will bring you to lots of them. We also have other recommendations in our Resources section.
Below are some films, blogs, and books suggested by our community.
CAA community recommendations:
Recommended Films on Animal/Vegan Issues
- Cowspiracy
- What the Health
- Dominion
- They’re Trying to Kill Us
- Earthlings
- The Game Changers
- Eating Animals
- The Smell of Money
- A Prayer for Compassion
- Forks Over Knives
- Blackfish
- Christspiracy
- Seaspiracy
- Food Inc.
- King Corn
- Okja
Recommended Blogs to Learn More About Animal and Food Issues
Recommended Reading on Veganism and Animal Issues
- Animal Liberation (and the updated Animal Liberation Now) by Peter Singer
- Any Ruby Roth books for kids, like Vegan Is Love
- Racism as Zoological Witchcraft by Aph Ko
- The Farm Sanctuary Life (Gene Baur), The 30-Day Vegan Challenge (Colleen Patrick-Goudreau), The Skeptical Vegan (Eric C. Lindstrom)
- Not necessarily vegan books, but explore the impacts of animal agriculture: Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser) and Oceana (Ted Danson)
- Just reading some PETA articles and even keeping up with the Star Tribune articles on animals has been helpful.
- This Is Vegan Propaganda by Ed Winters gives a great overview of veganism and the reasons why many of us don’t support the animal agriculture industry. There was a lot of new information I learned reading it and reinforced my commitment to fighting for the animals.
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- How Not to Age by Dr. Michael Greger
