The Meaty Truth: Why Our Food Is Destroying Our Health and Environment - and Who Is Responsible

The Meaty Truth is an eye-opening look at the massive problems caused by the American population’s food supply. Water, meat, and milk and other dairy products are filled with toxins, antibiotics, untested growth hormones, ammonia, and animal pus and manure. The current conditions of the food production industry must drastically improve, and until they do, it is absolutely vital to monitor what you eat. Castle and Goodman take a hard-hitting look at what America is putting into its food, the negative effects this has on the world, and the best ways to make healthy, informed decisions about eating.

As the antibiotic age ends, the rise of pandemic diseases is approaching. Approximately half of the illnesses that claim American lives today are related to what we eat, and our health care system is focused on treating the sick, not preventing illnesses from occurring. To fix our health problems, to continue feeding the world’s ever-growing population, and to save our planet from ecological destruction, we can no longer avoid making changes to how American meat and dairy products are produced. This guide is easy to read, applicable to anyone’s lifestyle, and impossible to put down.

Shushana Castle is the coauthor of Rethink Food: 100+ Doctors Can’t Be Wrong. She draws on her more than twenty-five years of working in the global financial markets to raise and structure capital for the clean technology space. She has also produced numerous environmental and health documentaries. Shushana presides on several environmental boards and is a frequent public speaker. She received her master’s degree in environmental management and water. Shushana lives in Texas and Colorado.

Amy-Lee Goodman is coauthor of the book Rethink Food: 100+ Doctors Can’t Be Wrong. She is the monthly wellness contributor to Vegan Lifestyle magazine, and her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Mother Earth News, and The Huffington Post. Amy-Lee is receiving her J.D. from Boston College Law School, where she is a Rappaport Fellow in public policy. She is an honors graduate from Wellesley College and lives in Boston.