Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World─With Food! (Plant-Based Diet Benefits) - Softcover

Robbins, John; Robbins, Ocean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573246247 ISBN 13: 9781573246248

Publisher: Conari Press, 2013

Synopsis

You Say You Want a (Food) Revolution?

What happens when a pioneering food activist and bestselling author sits down with 20+ of the world's leading “food revolutionaries?” A collection of 21 intimate essays on the multi-faceted food movement and a call to join in on the work.

Food sustainability and food ethics today. Guided by food revolutionary John Robbins, food activists, scientists, farmers, and economists come together to answer all your questions about food. How many Americans eat no vegetables at all? Do cows raised for meat impact our climate more than cars? Is it possible to be a positive food revolutionary without sounding like a self-righteous nag?

Towards a healthy, sustainable future for food. In a world of food politics and genetic engineering, it’s hard to imagine a healthy and sustainable future. With a behind scenes look at the food movement, Voices of the Revolution shows how far we’ve come since Robbins started this revolution over twenty-five years ago. Each voice offers a healthy, humane, and delicious contribution to new ways of feeding the world and ourselves. Featuring the voices of:

• Dean Ornish, MD, on Medicare and heart disease
• Joel Fuhrman, MD, and bestselling author of Eat to Live, on diets and optimal health
• Vandana Shiva, PhD, on GMOs and big agriculture companies

If you enjoyed Robbins’s The Food Revolution or books like The Omnivore's Dilemma, Healthy at 100, 31-Day Food Revolution, or Letters to a Young Farmer, then you’ll love Voices of the Revolution.

About this title

About the Author

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 100,000+ member Food Revolution Network, http://foodrevolution.org.

Robbins' work has been the subject of cover stories and feature articles in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Life, 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 the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Review

"The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. Voices of the Food Revolution is an informative and empowering tool which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet." Paul McCartney, Reviews

"If optimal health ranks high on your life's priority list, then Voices of the Food Revolution may be one of the most important books you will ever read. You will thank yourself as you enjoy the blessings of food in ways you never thought possible." --Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Life Visioning, Reviews

"Have you ever wanted to sit down and talk to the most powerful and visionary thoughtleaders, doctors, environmentalists, and humanitarians and ask them the most important and pressing questions about food, questions that can help not only you but also the world? Now you have that chance. This riveting book of insightful interviews offers fascinating and crucial information about the most important decision we collectively make each day - what we eat. Read it for yourself. Read it for animals. Read it for the planet." Zoe Weil, president, Institute for Humane Education, author of Most Good, Least Harm, Above All, Be Kind, The Power and Promise of Humane Education and Claude and Medea, Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Conari Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1573246247
• ISBN 13: 9781573246248
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 265