Diet for a New America How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth Second Edition

by Robbins, John

• ISBN13: 9781932073546
• ISBN10: 193207354X
• Edition: 25th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-11
• Publisher: HJ Kramer/New World Library

Summary

John Robbins awakened the conscience of a nation and spearheaded a movement with this book, as Rachel Carson had before him, and as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser have done in his wake. Robbins revealed the inhumane conditions under which food animals are raised and his insights into the moral price we pay for this system of suffering are unparalleled. Drawing a clear line between a meat-based diet and both contemporary medical conditions and ecological crises, Robbins, in what Frances Moore Lappé called “a tender, not strident voice,” makes perhaps the most eloquent argument for vegetarianism ever published. Robbins walked away from his family business — the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire — to pursue his dream of a society healthy because it practices “compassionate stewardship of a balanced ecosystem.” By pioneering our understanding of “the Great American Food Machine,” he has done more than most to realize that dream.

Author Biography

John Robbins’ work has been featured in all major print and broadcast media, including a PBS special. He has spoken before groups including Oxfam, UNICEF, The Humane Society, and Physicians for Social Responsibility. He lives near Santa Cruz, CA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Publisher's Prologue to the 25th Anniversary Edition	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xix
All God's Critters Have a Place in the Choir	p. 3
Brave New Chicken	p. 31
The Most Unjustly Maligned of All Animals	p. 55
Holy Cow	p. 79
Any Way You Slice It, It's Still Bologna	p. 103
Different Strokes for Different Folks	p. 129
The Rise and Fall of the Protein Empire	p. 151
Food-for the Caring Heart	p. 183
Losing a War We Could Prevent	p. 227
An Ounce of Prevention	p. 251
America the Poisoned	p. 285
All Things Are Connected	p. 325
Epilogue to the 25th Anniversary Edition	p. 355
Endnotes	p. 371
Index	p. 401
About the Author	p. 419
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