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Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher
Who Won't Eat Meat by Howard Lyman
When former cattle rancher Howard Lyman appeared on The
Oprah Winfrey Show in 1996 to share his insider view of the danger of
Mad Cow Disease spreading to this country, his revelations about the
beef industry prompted a group of Texas cattlemen to file a lawsuit
charging Lyman and the talk show host with "food disparagement." That
wasn't enough to silence Howard Lyman, and in this stirring account of
his journey from meat-loving cowboy to vegetarian environmental
activist, he tells the whole truth about the catastrophic consequences
of an animal-based diet.
Lyman is well aware of what goes into our livestock --
high doses of pesticides, growth hormone, and the ground-up remains of
other animals. A fourth-generation Montana farmer, he regularly doused
his cattle and soil with chemicals. It was only when he narrowly
escaped paralysis from a spinal tumor that Lyman began to question his
vocation and the effect it was having on people and on the land he
loved. The questions he raised and the answers he found led him,
surprisingly, to adopt a vegetarian diet. As a result, he lost 130
pounds and lowered his cholesterol by more than 150 points. He is now
one of America's leading spokesmen for vegetarianism.
Along the way, Lyman learned even more about the
alarming dangers associated with eating meat. Here he blasts through
the propaganda of the beef and dairy industries (and the government
agencies that often protect them) and exposes an animal-based diet as
the primary cause of cancer, heart disease, and obesity in this
country. In a powerful and original voice, he warns that our livestock
industry has repeated the mistakes that led to Mad Cow Disease in
England while it simultaneously visits frightful, lasting damage on our
environment.
Persuasive, straightforward, and full of the down-home
good humor and optimism of a son of the soil, Mad Cowboy is both an
inspirational story of personal transformation and a convincing call to
action for a plant-based diet -- for the good of the planet and the
health of us all.  $1.37
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