Vystopia: the anguish of being vegan in a non-vegan world

What a disappointment. This is barely worthy of a blog post, let alone an entire book. Though it seems to be marketed to vegans, the first 97 (of 141) pages are devoted to explaining why vegans might be depressed by constantly experiencing how invisible their ideals are to most people. Since a vegan would already be thoroughly familiar with the roots of their “anguish,” it serves no purpose but to fill space.

Then she reveals her 10-point solution to “vystopia” and it's exactly the same stuff you've seen a million times already: exercise, good nutrition, meditation, &c. She then spends a few pages explaining how to communicate vegan values clearly. That's it. That's the book.

I would have given it two stars because maybe someone who doesn't have internet access could find it vaguely helpful, but on page 92 she attempts to draw an implicit parallel between veganism and belief in chemtrails. Grouping vegans with fringe-dwelling conspiracy theorists is not doing the animals any favors.

Garbage.

I appreciate the term and it's cool, but not so much the book even though it's intent is good.

This book is very simple and basic, not much is said and it's mostly nothing interesting, especially not to people who are already vegan. There's nothing wrong in that, but there's also some not credible information in it. It reads like a blogpost with a lot of information I would see flying online, the author doesn't try to add much to the vegan movement. I guess I can still see this as a helpful source for someone starting and for someone who is not managing their mental health that well. But at the same time the author seems to hint that she likes conspiracies and quotes a UFO book author. If this book is this basic please don't do this, it makes it way harder to recommend to other people as a starting resource which this could be.

I was especially excited about the fact that this is from a psychology perspective, but it doesn't really seem to get into anything clinical which I expected going in. I really want a psychology book with in depth psychology elements, it just sounds like something I would really like.

It's not that good and it's not that bad. I am struggling to write that much about it as it is quite short. I suppose you can use the book to validate the concept that it can be a struggle to live in the world as a vegan. I like that she hypes the reader up in the end. I am excited to read more vegan books as always and perhaps will use that list of movies at the end because I need to review some vegan movies as well.