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title: "Vegetarian News - New Book - The Silent Ark - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Vegetarian News - New Book - The Silent Ark: New Book - The Silent Ark by Juliet Gellatley with Tony Wardle from EVU News, Issue 2 / 1996 With extraordinary timing and superb perception, Juliet Gellatley's book The Silent Ark touches the very heart of public concern over BSE (mad cow disease). It"
url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=5596:news-evu-news962-book&catid=233"
date: "2026-11-06T00:05:32+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
---

#  Vegetarian News - New Book - The Silent Ark

**New Book - The Silent Ark**

 *by Juliet Gellatley with Tony Wardle*

 **from EVU News, Issue 2 / 1996**

---

 ![image: book cover](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/news/evu/news962/iark2.gif) With extraordinary timing and superb perception, Juliet Gellatley's book *The Silent Ark* touches the very heart of public concern over BSE (mad cow disease). It reveals the political deceit and commercial self interest which led to the growth of BSE but, frighteningly, shows that this is only the beginning. By ignoring nature, modern farming techniques have produced a system of agriculture which is unsustainable and which is increasingly threatening human life. It is all part of meat culture which, quite literally, is destroying the planet.

 *The Silent Ark* is obtainable in a signed first edition at the cost of £6.99 from:
 ***Viva!***, P.O. Box 212, Crewe Cheshire WI 4SD
 Tel:01270 522500 / Fax 01270 522511

 Also available from all good book shops or see further details of The Silent Ark on the [***Viva!***](http://www.viva.org.uk/) web pages.

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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