The Vegan Studies Project

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,

Charlie Shelton

Published November 5, 2015 at 11:48 AM EST

For author Laura Wright, being a vegan is a choice in diet and identity. It shapes what she eats and wears, as well as how she is perceived in a culinary culture that revolves around meat.

Her new book "The Vegan Studies: Food, Animals and Gender in the Age of Terror" (University of Georgia Press/2015) unpacks the vegan identity through the lens of health, politics and pop culture.

Host FrankStasiotalks with Wright about the book and howveganismhas been molded by American culture.

Wright reads at Malaprop's Bookstore in Asheville on Friday, November 6 at 7 p.m.

Author Laura Wright talks about her new book "The Vegan Studies: Food, Animals and Gender in the Age of Terror"

Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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Charlie Shelton