Hot off the press from Rodale comes The Way We Eat by animal advocate and philosopher Peter Singer and Lantern author and anthropologist/lawyer Jim Mason. In the book the two writers, who long-time activists might remember collaborated on the groundbreaking Animal Factories, explore the ethics of eat through the perspectives of families eating the Standard American Diet (SAD), "conscientious carnivores," and vegans, and provide lots of up-to-date information on factory farming and slaughterhouses and current agricultural lunacy. Peter Singer's recently been interviewed in Mother Jones and on Salon. For the current wretched state of discussions about animals and our duties toward them, click here.

We're all obsessed with food it seems at the moment, for just published from North Point Press is nutritionist and cultural anthropologist Marion Nestle's What to Eat. This enormous book can be placed in your shopping trolley as you tool around the supermarket working what you should buy and what you should put in your body. You might want to check both books out.