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A groundbreaking book that reveals why plant-based eating is not only harming human health, it is also harming the planet. The authors explain why a pasture-reared meat diet – the Sapiens diet – is more ethical and humane than a vegetarian or vegan diet.

With qualifications in medicine, nutrition, geology and agriculture, the authors bring together a unique combination of expertise in health, diet, earth sciences and the impact of farming systems on the environment.

This thought-provoking and topical book explains how we can prevent and reverse many chronic diseases by eating the diet that drove human evolution, a diet based on meat, animal fat and offal. The book also shows how crop farming is causing climate change, soil destruction, animal suffering and ecological disaster.

Why Vegans Have Smaller Brains: And How Cows Reverse Climate Change bridges the gap between pasture and plate in an accessible and engaging way.

David Ellis has a degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge. He spent 35 years in the oil industry as a geophysicist searching for oil and gas. Poacher-turned-gamekeeper, he is now better appreciating the ways that human activities, including farming, can aggravate or alleviate climate change.

Alison Morgan holds a degree in agriculture from the University of Reading and a postgraduate degree in global development. She has worked with arable and livestock farmers, in agricultural research, farm advisory work, and farming, food and environment policy roles. She has also worked overseas with farmers and pastoral herders in Central Asia and the Middle East.

Anita Tagore has a degree in medicine from the University of Cambridge. She is a former GP and recently completed a master's degree in food and human nutrition. Anita has spent the last five years researching and writing about the benefits of animal-based foods.