This was a book that was welcome to me as vegetarian and animal lover. I think it laid out the concepts well and was a good introduction for young people but it is one of this books that will not generate much change because it will appeal to those already on this road.

I wish I'd had this book when I decided to quit eating animals in middle school! This book is filled with good information and reasons to make changes to our diets and to our purchases and lifestyle. While the book does a good job of going into how we impact animals by eating them, it also does a great job of pointing out other ways we are impacting animals in our non-food choices. I appreciated the discussions on topics such as fast fashion, zoos, etc, and the author's stance of doing what we can vs doing nothing because we can't do everything.

Thanks to Pavilion Books and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Very simple yet dense. Newbery knows how to explain animal cruelty in the systematic way, which is extremely helpful if you want to learn more about the fashion and food industry & how they affect animals. The age range is extremely wide—you can make your children and your grandparents read it.

Newbery’s discussions of animal rights, recycling & reusing, the fashion and food industry’s effects on animals, things to consider when you consider getting a pet.

Personally, I’m not a vegetarian & eat meat a few times a month. Even though this book pushes readers to go vegan, the author still shows amazing respect towards meat consumers like me who eat much less. Eating less meat is still a good step & matters.

Recycling & other R’s are so, so important but overlooked by many people. I loved the approach towards the subject and the ideas given by the author on how to Reuse, recycle, repurpose.

Overall rating: 3.5/5

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an e-arc of this book.

I think the book has a great message it truly does but the execution was pretty bad. I picked this book up with Covid-19 being one of the only times that we were actually starting to see our planet turn in a healthier way with less driving, flying, shopping...etc. so I picked up this book hoping to find some small changes I could make.

The positive: i really enjoyed the last third of the book where the author went into circus acting and zoos and rehabilitation of animals. I was hoping they wpuld mention the use of holographic animals in zoos now since ive seen that trending. I liked how they talked about different zoos that were caring for the animals and i really appreciated the argument they gave on animals dying out rather than being bred at the zoo knowing full well they would not be able to survive in the wild. I also really loved the wnd of the book naming all of the websites I could visit to suppirt causes and learn more about my daily products.

Now the negative: As this was under the Tenns&YA category I really hoped it would have dived in a little deeper and given more depth to how teenagers are thinking now about meat consumption and consumerism. But sadly it did not. This truly sounded like a published collection of blog posts and was super repetitive the first 45% of the book. I think I was told how much meat the US, Australia and the UK eats at least 10 times before I was even 30% in the book. I did find this e-galley under Teens&YA, so I'm surprised that the level of writing here felt much more middle grade to me, teenagers are aware of these issues with the rise of social media, so I was hoping to see some more statistics or maybe alternative to use, like metal straws to plastic straws.

As someone who is trying to become (at least) a vegetarian, this book was so helpful and made me learn so much about things that I thought I knew and even stuff that I didn't have any idea about. Thank You Netgalley and the Publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a great introduction to younger minds about how to help save our planet. As a life long veggie it sparked my interest and I read it pretty much in one go! Really interesting, informative and easily written!

This is a super educational book about the animal testing and the cruelty that animals endure. I am a vegetarian and I always try to use cruelty free and vegan products whenever I can, but I didn't know a lot about how dark the industry is, so this book really backed up my ideals. Very accessible for everyone that is interested in learning more!

Linda Newberry has written a book for young adults and adults on how to lessen humanity's harmful effects on animals. She is an activist and following the reading of the book, I find myself being more thoughtful on my lifestyle choices and how they affect the animals of the earth. I highly recommend this book!

I particularly enjoyed the chapter entitled, "We Don't Need Meet To Be Healthy" where she describes how she became a vegetarian and then a vegan. Part of her reasoning is the cruelty wreaked on cattle and chickens.

"The unavoidable issue with both mass dairy and egg production is that male chicks and calves are of no use in intensive systems, male chicks are killed at a few days old. Like other mammals, dairy cows don't produce milk unless they have calves; but their calves are taken away from them, often immediately after birth, and are either killed or reared for veal. . . . . .If you cut out dairy products and eggs as well as meat, you're distancing yourself from this kind of cruelty." (page 67)

A wonderful aspect of the book is the information in the appendix. It contains such gems as organizations and websites dedicated to a cruelty=free world, significant people such as Jane Goodall and Greta Thunberg along with their webpages, and even some cool vegan recipes. So not only does the book speak about being cruelty free, it gives the readers tools to become more active in that endeavor.

I am not a vegan or vegetarian but reading this book gave me a lot to think about! Thank you Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to receive this book for a review. It is well written with many informative information on animal cruelty.

I really enjoyed reading this book! Initially I was intrigued by the premise but I think it's valuable in terms of creating animal awareness and taking into consideration animal rights.

This is a book everyone should read! In a clear, easy to understand way it discusses many topics involving animal cruelty, from farm factory to exotic pets. I thought it very good that climate change, overconsumption and biodiversity loss are also discussed, as these also have a huge impact on many animals.
Without judging people the writer gives her opinion on every topic, she encourages her readers to think and make their own decisions. I highly recommend everyone reading this. This Book Is Cruelty Free should be in every school's library!

A disclosure before I begin my review: I picked up This Book is Cruelty Free for several reasons. For one thing, I am a vegetarian, and recently I've been trying to monitor my impact on the world. Not just in regards to animals, but the environment as well. So naturally, a novel like this instantly appealed to me.

This Book is Cruelty Free, written by Linda Newbery, is intended to be a guide to help readers lessen their negative impact on the world. It is admittedly more focused on the animal side of things, far from being a bad thing.

I love that the book is broken down into easy-to-digest sections. Not only does it make the whole concept feel more approachable, but it's more useful this way too. People looking to adjust a specific part of their lives can more easily find the resources required this way.

I would recommend reading The Omnivore's Dilemma for anybody looking for a more in-depth view of the food industry side of things. This Book is Cruelty Free does a great job of covering the basics, but there's a lot more to learn as well.

I do have one criticism of this novel that I hate to bring up, but I feel like I must: One of the citations comes from PETA. From the outside, this may look like a sound source to pull from – but if you do your research, you'll understand how damaging PETA actually is to the animal rights cause. It left a bad taste in my mouth, seeing them listed within this book. It put everything else covered into question. Again, I hate to bring this up, but it would be dishonest of me to ignore this point. So to be fair, I am docking an entire star from my rating.

Thanks to the publishers for sharing this one. It's a great resource and a lovely way to get children to think about animal rights. My full review appears on Weekend Notes.

thank you netgalley for giving me this arc! as a teenage vegetarian i found this book super insightful and there was a lot to take away from it. i particularly loved the voice of this book and how instead of creating rules, they made suggestions and gave alternatives! this book was never boring and wasn't overrun by facts an statistics whilst still having a steady supply of data to back up the points. this book gave me a lot to think about and i think anyone could find this helpful!

As a vegetarian, I think that this book was awesome. Sources are here, facts are here, no one can deny that we hurt animals. It’s incredibly well written, so everyone can read it. Definitely a must have.

Thank you, Netgalley and the publisher, for the opportunity to read an arc version of this book!

I will be honest and admit that I am imperfect--I have been a vegetarian and occasional (~4 years) vegan for the past 15 years, but there is so much more I could be doing to live a cruelty-free life. This book introduces the concept of speciesism and how the human tendency to place animals below us impacts both ourselves and animals. I appreciated that this book included The Five Freedoms (ex. Freedom from fear and distress) as a grounding connection between the reader, and a way of building empathy. The book goes through the products we use daily, what we put into our bodies, and what we put on our bodies (fashion).

This text is an excellent empathy-building read for students without having the emotional impact of a slaughterhouse video. That makes this book more palatable for readers who might not be ready to live a cruelty-free life but are curious. My only push would be for this book to have more imagery and varied structure for the young audience, as the blocks of text can be overwhelming. Very strongly researched text, however!

I am a secondary school teacher and I have recently done a scheme of work with my cultural studies and PSHE classes all about animal testing. This topic really intrigued me, and has inspired me to try harder to go cruelty-free with my cosmetics.
This book has further developed my knowledge on this topic. There was so much in this book considering how short it was. I definitely learnt a lot.
I liked how this book covered many aspects of animal cruelty - not just animal testing.
There's a lot to take away from reading this book and I definitely recommend this book to everyone!

I was really looking forward to this book, I had actually "wished" for it on NetGalley, but unfortunetly I decided to DNF it at 49%. I think that this book would be great for older children/young teenagers that are interested in going vegan and would like to know more about how veganism is good for your health and for the planet, but as someone who's been vegan for 6.5 years it felt like lecturing an expert. This book did make me cry within the first couple of pages, due to the subject matter it was talking about. I'm still giving it a high rating because I really enjoyed what I read and I think that it will be a great resource to other people, it just wasn't right for me.