positive reviews of new book "Making Kind Choices"

Chicago Tribune
Review by Devin Rose.

Not stepping on ants or using a rat trap can help change the world, because all of life is interconnected. That's the view of Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

In her new book "Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living (St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95), she offers a multitude of ways, big and small, to help the world around you.

Buying a car? The company Ultrafabrics can provide interiors that feel like leather but aren't. Have little critters drowning in your pool? Plunk down the Frog Saver Lily Pad for them to rest on or provide a ramp, rock or platform so they can escape. Whether you're cleaning your house, applying makeup or tending to your lawn, she offers ways to do so without harming a creature, and includes lists of resources for you to find the goods you need. She also lists ways to volunteer in your community, from walking AIDS patients' dogs to asking your local coffee shop to provide soy milk. Finally, she provides recipes for animal- and eco-friendly feasts, from Christmas to Ramadan.

Put your money where your heart is: "You can say yes to progress when you open your wallet."

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The Washington Post
January 16, 2005 Sunday

Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth- and Animal-Friendly Living, by Ingrid Newkirk (St. Martin's Griffin, $13.95). The cofounder of the animal-rights group PETA invites you to live a kinder, gentler existence. Don't wear fur, of course; but have you thought about your multivitamin, which may come packaged in gelatin caps made from cow or pig protein "obtained by boiling skin, tendons, ligaments, and/or bones with water"? It's not all gross, however; Newkirk celebrates such planet-affirming activities as beachcombing, which can produce treasures and also helps keep the beaches clean, and waxes lyrical about bees and how they produce honey (apparently they're victims of factory farming, too). If you lean toward green, you'll find useful, even lovely things here.

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You can buy it on line at:
http://petacatalog.org/products.asp?dept=17

Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn

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