The Food Revolution

John Robbins is the bestselling author of Voices of the Food Revolution, No Happy Cows, Diet for a New America, and many other landmark works. He is the founder of EarthSave International and the co-founder and co-host of the 500,000+ member Food Revolution Network. Robbins' work has been the subject of cover stories and feature articles in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many of the nation's other major newspapers and magazines. His life and work have also been featured in an hour-long PBS special titled “Diet For A New America.” The only son of the founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, Robbins was groomed to follow in his father's footsteps, but chose to walk away from Baskin-Robbins and the immense wealth it represented to "...pursue the deeper American Dream...the dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms. A dream of a society that is truly healthy, practicing a wise and compassionate stewardship of a balanced ecosystem.” He lives with his family in California's Santa Cruz Mountains. Dean Ornish, MD, is the founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Ornish was recognized as "one of the 125 most extraordinary University of Texas alumni in the past 125 years;" by TIME magazine as a "TIME 100 Innovator;" by LIFE magazine as "one of the fifty most influential members of his generation;" by People magazine as "one of the most interesting people of the year;" and by Forbes magazine as "one of the world's seven most powerful teachers."

The Food RevolutionForeword

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the 10th Anniversary Edition


1 Introduction: What Is the Food Revolution?

PART I Food and Healing
2 Healthy Heart, Healthy Life
3 Preventing Cancer
4 The Great American Diet Roller Coaster
5 A Healthy Plant-Based Diet
6 Got BS?
7 Unsafe On Any Plate
8 Policing the Pathogens

PART II Our Food, Our Fellow Creatures
9 The Pig Farmer
10 Old McDonald Had a Factory
11 Misery on the Menu
12 Eating with Conscience

PART III Our Food, Our World
13 Choices for a Healthy Environment
14 Once Upon a Planet
15 Reversing the Spread of Hunger

PART IV Genetic Engineering
16 Pandora's Pantry
17 Farmageddon
18 The Emperor's New Foods
19 The Turning of the Tide
20 Conclusion: Our Food, Our Future


Resource Guide

Notes

Index

About John Robbins