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Voices of the Food Revolution

You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!

by John Robbins
Ocean Robbins
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Did you know that:

  • More than 80% of the foods you eat in restaurants and buy at supermarkets contain genetically engineered ingredients, and that these ingredients have been linked to toxic and allergic reactions in people; sickness, sterility, and fatalities in livestock; and damage to virtually every organ studied in lab animals?
  • If you don't count French fries, ketchup or pizza as vegetables, more than half of Americans eat no vegetables at all?
  • Cows raised for meat are impacting our climate more than cars?
  • It's possible to be a positive food revolutionary without sounding like a self-righteous nag?

    Join John and Ocean Robbins for 21 intimate, game-changing conversations with some of the world's leading "food revolutionaries": scientists, doctors, teachers, farmers, economists, activists, and nutritionists working on food issues today. Introduced and with commentary by John Robbins and his son Ocean, the book features luminaries such as:

  • Dean Ornish, MD, on his years-in-the-making breakthrough with Medicare (his program for healing heart disease is now covered)
  • Kathy Freston on making incremental, manageable changes to how we eat
  • T. Colin Campbell, PhD, (author of the famed China Study) with the latest research on animal protein and human health
  • Joel Fuhrman, MD (author of the bestselling Eat to Live), on achieving excellent health through diet
  • Caldwell Esselstyn, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic on wiping out heart disease by changing what we eat
  • Vandana Shiva, PhD, on GMOs and Big Ag
  • Rory Freedman on how to stop eating misery and start looking fabulous
  • Raj Patel on building a saner global food policy

    Each contributor discusses his or her work in depth, but together they make one rallying cry: for a healthy, sustainable, humane, and delicious revolution in how we and the world are fed. Over twenty-five years ago John Robbins started a revolution. This book is proof of how far we've come, a fascinating look behind the scenes of the multi-faceted food movement, and a call to join in the work of ensuring our health and food future. 

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      May 1, 2013

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    • Reviews

      • Library Journal

        September 1, 2014

        A food activist and his son interview 21 thought leaders in food and nutrition and ask them what to eat and why it matters. (LJ 11/1/13)

        Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • Library Journal

        September 1, 2013

        In this follow-up to 2010's The Food Revolution, activist John Robbins teams with his son and fellow activist Ocean to further the conversation about food, health, and the environment. They present interviews with 21 "food revolutionaries," including scientists, doctors, teachers, farmers, economists, activists, and nutritionists. While the book is very much a call to action, it opens on an optimistic note. "Those days may be numbered," Ocean Robbins writes in the introduction, referencing the various problems caused by the industrial food system. He cites the work of activists such as his father, Bill McKibben, Frances Moore Lappe, and others (many included in this book) as his reason to hope for substantial progress in what he believes is the right direction: a plant-based diet produced and consumed outside of an industrialized system. The book is divided into seven topical sections, each of which includes conversations among John Robbins and activists, brief next steps for those who want to make a difference, and a list of resources. One section features a discussion of spirituality that closes with a prayer offered by author Marianne Williamson. VERDICT Inspirational fare for activists; others can stick with the original.--Mindy Rhiger, Minneapolis

        Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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