Want to learn more about animal rights or veganism?<\/p>\n
Enjoy reading a thought-provoking book and then discussing it with like-minded people in a friendly, supportive atmosphere?<\/p>\n
Then join the Bay Area Vegetarians Food for Thought Book Club<\/strong>.\u00a0 We typically meet on 5-6 Sundays a year, and discuss the book over vegan food.\u00a0 Our locations rotate throughout the Bay Area, primarily SF and South Bay\/Peninsula.\u00a0 Books are suggested and decided upon by the group.\u00a0 Ideally we would like to have 8 people at each discussion, but it’s varied from 4 to 12.\u00a0 It’s always fun to use this meeting as an opportunity to try different vegan foods at local restaurants or picnic-style at Yerba Buena Gardens.<\/p>\n The FFTBC started in Feb 2006 with Animal Liberation and has since read Dominion<\/em>, Vegan Freaks, The China Study, Free the Animals, Pleasurable Kingdom, Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, Living Among Meat Eaters, For the Prevention of Cruelty: The History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism, Making Burros Fly<\/em>, and Eternal Treblinka<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Food for Thought Book Club’s September selection is about the use of animals in medical research.\u00a0 Specious Science: How Genetics and Evolution Reveal Why Medical Research on Animals Harms Humans<\/em><\/strong> by C. Ray Greek, MD and Jean Swingle Greek, DVM<\/p>\n Google Books description: “Arguing that there is a great divide between species that makes extrapolation of biochemical research from one group to another utterly invalid, this book provides the argument’s scientific underpinning in accessible language, examining pediatrics, brain diseases, new surgical techniques and more.” <\/em><\/p>\n