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Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir
Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir | Michael Anthony
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A rough-and-tumble Iraq War veteran is young and in love, and the last thing on his mind is food and the ethics of eating meat. But when his girlfriend becomes a vegetarian and animal rights activist, suddenly food is all he thinks about. A true story of how love and vegetarianism can triumph over all else. Love, heartache, and the rest of the ingredients that make a reader laugh, smile, stop-and-think, are all found in this enthralling graphic memoir. Amidst the stories of love and frustration, there are treatises on food, vegetarianism, and the ethics of the animal rights movement (some of it juxtaposed against Michael's graphic wartime experiences). Told with Michael's sardonic perspective and the delightful artwork of debut graphic novelist Chai Simone, this is a journey of true love gone temporarily astray.
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3.5 ⭐ This book was not at all with that what I was expecting. It was quite fun and very interesting. It is a memoir about Michael and his girlfriend, Coconut and how she tries to turn them vegan. Michael is a veteran and Coconut is a nurse. She goes down the vegetarian/vegan tunnel that leads to animal rights activism. She wants Michael right there beside her. But for Michael, watching the bloody documentaries and reading the horrible books

LibrarianRyan about slaughterhouses, don‘t convince him. What they convinced him of is that Coconut and he might be getting too far apart. So, he hatches a plan to get her to like meat again. This book was quite funny, but you could feel the heart, and you could feel the real experiences of a veteran who could relate his day-to-day life to what he experienced over in the Middle East. I really like that this had a happy ending. It always felt like it would, but 12mo
LibrarianRyan , but with the title and the subject it could have gone the other way. Apparently, this author has a few other graphic novels illustrated by somebody different and I think I‘d be interested in checking them out. 12mo
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