Popick's theology may be flawed, but then again, this is not a book about heaven but about salvaging what little bit of paradise is left here on earth. He expresses so many of the concerns I have held about eating meat ever since I was a child and my parents insisted I eat that hamburger that was, a few days earlier, my cow in the pasture. He also addresses the trauma many junior high students experience the first time they have to cut up animal as a "learning experience" in biology class. I still remember how I dreaded that required lab when I was in school.

I have been a vegan for 12 years and when I went that route, I was warned I would lose my hair and die within a year. I feel better now than I ever have. Don't believe the garbage the meat industry is telling you. Animals do suffer tremendously so you can have a burger, and you don't need that bloody meat to survive.

Just buy the book. But you can get it a lot faster by going directly to his Web site, jeffpopick.com.