Lantern Publishing & Media

04/20/2022

Do Childfree People Have Better Sex? A Feminist’s Journey in the Childfree Movement by Verena Brunschweiger is now available: https://lanternpm.org/book/do-childfree-people-have-better-sex/

The latest book by well-known, progressive activist Verena Brunschweiger on the growing childfree movement, its many positive benefits, and the conventional resistance to adopting this lifestyle.

Verena Brunschweiger is no stranger to controversy. In her latest book, Do Childfree People Have Better Sex?, our provocateur tackles this increasingly popular topic and its many ramifications, head-on. After conveying her own personal story, Brunschweiger expounds with data in hand on the implications of having children: the ecological and environmental consequences, feminism, politics, and philosophical disputation. She explores current issues including over-population and the environment, animal welfare, abortion and reproductive rights, politics, and anti-natalism. Brunschweiger posits women have the right to be happy and, if they choose to, feel comfortable rejecting the societal conventional pressure of having children. Our author suggests that women and their partners will have more freedom and enjoyment if they are childfree. Brunschweiger doesn’t want humanity to go extinct as some may suggest; rather, she wants the earth and its inhabitants to have an enjoyable and sustainable future.

04/14/2022

Episode 53: Fabulously Vegan with Jasmin Singer

Jasmin Singer, editor of Antiracism in Animal Advocacy (https://lanternpm.org/book/antiracism-in-animal-advocacy/), was recently on the Hope for the Animals Podcast. Hear her discuss the anthology and her many other projects.

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04/13/2022

Thought About Food Podcast

Z. Zane McNeill, editor of Vegan Entanglements (https://lanternpm.org/book/vegan-entanglements/), was on the Thought About Food Podcast, where he discussed the book and what “carceral veganism” and “anti-carceral veganism” means and looks like.

Thought About Food is a podcast on food and food studies. Each episode, we look at important issues around food, and we talk to academics, activists, or policymakers who work on these issues....

04/05/2022

It's time for society to go vegan - this book says why

Check out this review of Vegan Voices (https://lanternpm.org/book/vegan-voices/) by Richard Schwartz, author of Vegan Revolution (https://lanternpm.org/book/vegan-revolution/).

He writes, "At this critical time, when the world faces a devastating pandemic, a looming climate catastrophe, an epidemic of diet-related diseases and shortages of water and other resources, Vegan Voices has the potential to help shift our imperiled planet onto a sustainable path.

Thus, it is essential that its powerful messages be widely read and heeded. If you are a vegan or have a basically plant-based diet, read it and be inspired. If you have not yet adopted such a diet, read it and learn in a very reader-friendly way how you can improve your health, bring more compassion into the world and help leave a decent, habitable, environmentally sustainable world for future generations."

In view of the severity of current climate and other environmental threats, there may be in the future either a largely vegan world or a largely destroyed world.

03/31/2022

Stories Rabbits Tell

Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature by Susan E. Davis and Margo DeMello is now available as an ebook.

Revered as a symbol of fertility, sexuality, purity and childhood, beloved as a children’s pet and widely represented in the myths, art and collectibles of almost every culture, the rabbit is one of the most popular animals known to humans. Ironically, it has also been one of the most misunderstood and abused. Indeed, the rabbit is the only animal that our culture adores as a pet, idolizes as a storybook hero and slaughters for commercial purposes.

Stories Rabbits Tell takes a comprehensive look at the rabbit as a wild animal, ancient symbol, pop culture icon, commercial “product” and domesticated pet. In so doing, the book explores how one species can be simultaneously adored as a symbol of childhood (think Peter Rabbit), revered as a symbol of female sexuality (e.g., Playboy Bunnies), dismissed as a “dumb bunny” in domesticity and loathed as a pest in the wild. The authors counter these stereotypes with engaging analyses of real rabbit behavior, drawn both from the authors’ own experience and from academic studies, and place those behaviors in the context of current debates about animal consciousness. In a detailed investigative section, the authors also describe conditions in the rabbit meat, fur, pet and vivisection industries, and raise important questions about the ethics of treating rabbits as we do.

The first book of its kind, Stories Rabbits Tell provides invaluable information and insight into the life and history of an animal whom many love, but whom most of us barely know. As such, it is a key addition to the current thinking on animal emotions, intelligences and welfare, and the way that human perceptions influence the treatment of individual species.

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Revered as a symbol of fertility, sexuality, purity and childhood, beloved as a children’s pet and widely represented in the myths, art and collectibles of almost every culture, the rabbit is one of the most popular animals known to humans. Ironica...

03/29/2022

Karavan Kitchen by Soraya Beheshti is now available: https://lanternpm.org/book/karavan-kitchen/

Cooking is the closest thing we have to a universal ritual experience. It is sacred, enchanting, and transformative. Heritage cooking is history, chemistry, meditation, worship, and health in one sacramental act. All over the world, men and women brign the fruits of their labors to the table.

Karavan Kitchen is a beautifully illustrated cookbook packed with mouth-watering recipes for a wide range of vegan dishes throughout the Middle East—whether salads, mezze plates, main courses, the enormous variety of grains, sweet desserts, and beverages. Karavan Kitchen is also an evocative introduction to the many diverse cultures of the region and an eye-opening and compelling examination of the refugee crises caused by the conflicts in Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Somalia. Soraya Beheshti demonstrates how food is often the central connection many refugees have to their native countries and a means of creating community even when forced to live in difficult conditions many miles from home.

03/28/2022

We stand with our colleague and all beings in Ukraine that desire to be free from tyranny and oppression.

Starting in March of 2022, Lantern has decided to host fundraisers aligned with our values. Each campaign will benefit a specific cause or non-profit organization and include book giveaways.

As part of Lantern’s emergency response to help Ukraine, we have set up a fundraising campaign supporting three organizations: UNWLA - Ukrainian National Women's League of America, Inc., Восток SOS, and UAnimals. 100% of all donations made through our website will go to these organizations currently providing critical support in Ukraine.

Every week, Lantern will give away one of our books to two donors selected at random. This week's book giveaway is Vegan Voices (https://bit.ly/36zafaT). We thank our community for generous support and hope you will consider contributing here: https://bit.ly/3qCpSVF.

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03/09/2022

Food for Thought: Planetary Healing Begins on Our Plate by Camila Perussello, PhD is now available: lanternpm.org/food-for-thought
This book seeks to make you aware of your power to shape industry and society. Perussello invites you to question who really benefits from our current food system through a detailed, science-based analysis of food production and consumption. The author discusses how this industry goes well beyond the blatant violence against non-human animals. She posits that animal agriculture is creating a world of disease, suffering and despair, injustice, and environmental depletion. She provides an accessible, science-based analysis of animal food production from the perspective of a Food Process Engineer, as well as insightful discussions on the many implications of our diet. Each section is supported by powerful photographs taken by acclaimed Animal Equality undercover investigators in animal farms worldwide. She elaborates on the relationship between microbial pathogens (including COVID-19), antibiotic resistance, and the consumption of animal products. Food for Thought is ultimately an invitation to change society making it an essential and timely resource for everyone.

03/08/2022

Vegan Entanglements: Speciesism, Capitalism, and Carcerality

On March 31st, @firestormcoop is virtually hosting editor Z. Zane McNeill in conversation with ​William Horne and Yulia Gilich to discuss their contributions to Vegan Entanglements: Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism (https://lanternpm.org/book/vegan-entanglements/).

In a dozen scholarly and personal essays on the intersections of the prison-industrial complex, industrial animal agriculture, and capitalism, Vegan Entanglements examines the ways human and animal bodies are controlled, manipulated, and sectioned within a system that commodifies labor, production, and individual beings for profit.

Register for free here: https://firestorm.coop/events/2974-vegan-entanglements-speciesism-capitalism-and-carcerality.html

Editor Z. Zane McNeill discusses Vegan Entanglements: Dismantling Racial and Carceral Capitalism with contributors ​William Horne and Yulia Gilich.

03/05/2022

Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene (https://bit.ly/3vHzamY), edited by founder of We Animals Media Jo-Anne McArthur and co-founder of Photographers Against Wildlife Crime Keith Wilson, was nominated by Independent Publisher Book Awards as Indie Groundbreaking Book for March 2022. The article, written by Jim Barnes, highlights the unique strengths of this “unflinching book of photography.” Read the full piece here: https://bit.ly/3sGvcZN.

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02/22/2022

Vegan Geographies: Spaces Beyond Violence, Ethics Beyond Speciesism edited by Paul Hodge, Andrew McGregor, Simon Springer, Ophélie Véron, and Richard J. White is now available: https://lanternpm.org/book/vegan-geographies/

Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to Antiquity. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalizing the study of veganism. Whereas occasional publications have recently emerged from sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, or critical animal studies, a comprehensive geographical analysis is missing. Until now. In fourteen chapters from a diverse group of scholars and living practitioners, Vegan Geographies looks across space and scale, exploring the appropriateness of vegan ethics among diverse social and cultural groups, and within the midst of broader neoliberal economic and political frameworks that seek to commodify and marketize the movement. Vegan Geographies fundamentally challenges outdated but still dominant human–nature dualisms that underpin widespread suffering and ecological degradation, providing practical and accessible pathways for people interested in challenging contemporary systems and working collectively toward less destructive worlds.