Nina Guilbeault at Cambridge Public Library

Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Nina Guilbeault, PhD—sociologist, author, educator, and cofounder of the nonprofit Plant Futures—for a discussion of her new book The Good Eater: A Vegan’s Search for the Future of Food. She will be joined in conversation by Michael Pollan—Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction at Harvard and author of nine books, including This is Your Mind on Plants.

Ticketing

RSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve a hardcover copy of The Good Eater and pick it up at the event. Nina will sign copies of her new book after the presentation.

About The Good Eater

For years, there has been no doubt that widespread consumption of meat is both environmentally destructive and morally dubious. A growing chorus of scientists, health experts, and activists champion the benefits of a plant-based diet. Nevertheless, change has been slow to arrive, and the chasm between our appetites and our collective well-being seems impossibly vast. We know we must transition to a more plant-based world. But what would such a world look like, and how do we realistically get there?

One group of people has been grappling with this question for decades: vegans. Once mocked for its hempy puritanism, the vegan movement has grown from a fringe identity into a veritable cultural juggernaut. Yet visions of what our food system should look like continue to conflict. Is the healthful vegan lifestyle appealing-or alienating? Are high-tech meat alternatives merely a repeat performance of harmful fast-food values? Is modern veganism itself misguided-a wrong answer to the right questions?

In The Good Eater, Harvard-trained sociologist (and vegan) Nina Guilbeault, PhD vividly explores the movement's history and its present-day tensions by grappling with the most fundamental question of all: Is there a truly ethical way to eat? What emerges is a fascinating portrait of how social change happens, with profound implications for our plates-and our planet.

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