Rynn Berry is the historical adviser to the NAVS (North American Vegetarian Society). In his lectures, articles and books, he has specialized in the study of vegetarianism from an historical perspective. His first book, The New Vegetarians, was a collection of biographical sketches and interviews of famous contemporary vegetarians. His second book Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes is a biographical history of vegetarianism that ranges from Pythagoras and the Buddha to Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Beatles. In Food for the Gods, Rynn has written essays on vegetarianism in each of the world's religions: Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism Taoism , Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He has also included interviews with prominent vegetarian thinkers from each of these religions. In the back of the book Food for the Gods brings together at least five vegetarian recipes from each religious tradition (most of which are for living food dishes).

Hitler: Neither Vegetarian
Nor Animal Lover
by Rynn Berry
$10.95

Softcover - 81 pages

The myth that Adolf Hitler was an ethical vegetarian refuses to die! Even some misinformed eminent Hitler biographers have asserted that Hitler was not only an ethical vegetarian, but also a vegetarian rawfoodist! Now, vegetarian historian, Rynn Berry, who is the author of such vegetarian classics as Famous Vegetarians and Their Favorite Recipes, and Food For The Gods: Vegetarianism and the World's Religions, adroitly demolishes the seeming paradox that a genocidal tyrant could have been an animal lover and an ethical vegetarian. Eloquently written and thoroughly researched, Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover provides a necessary corrective to one of history's biggest and most enduring lies.

"Rynn Berry lays to rest the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian: The Fuhrer gorged on Bavarian sausages, ham, liver and pigeon, though he occasionally went on 'vegetarian' binges to cure his flatulence and excessive sweating."

—Publishers Weekly