Living Among Meat Eaters

The Vegetarian and Vegan Survival Guide

Bloomsbury presents Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian and Vegan Survival Guide by Carol J. Adams, read by RJ Hart.

Is there a blocked vegetarian in your life?

In this second edition of her bold and original book, Carol J. Adams offers real-life advice that vegetarians and vegans can use to defuse any situation where their food choices come under attack. She suggests viewing meat eaters as blocked, and their responses to vegans and vegetarians as signs of what keeps them from changing. The book provides strategies for conversations, insights into hostile behavior, and tips for dining out and entertaining at home among meat eaters, who Adams points out are perfectly happy eating vegan food as long as they don’t know that is what they are doing.

This edition features a new preface, a new chapter addressing living among meat eaters online, many new recipes, and revisions throughout to reflect the changes in society since the book was first published in 2001, making this much-loved guide more relevant than ever. As well as being a source of support and information, Living Among Meat Eaters contains more than 50 of Carol's favorite recipes.©2026 Carol J. Adams (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc