Which do you think is worse, breaking into a morgue, taking a body home and eating it or killing a non-human animal to eat it?

Ask your mother to respect your choices. It's your life, not hers. I love The Kind Diet.

It's great. Neal Barnard (vegan doctor) recommends everyone to go vegan so you should definitely read his books too. Veganism is healthy, despite what some people may want you to think.

Alicia Silverstone is not someone I would quote to mother. She is a young actress, not a nutrition authority. She may be right, but your mother wants reassurance by a documented (letters behind the name, PhD for instance) authority.

There are some popular and easy to read books by professional nutritionists and dieticians that would help you with your mom.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.