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The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World |  | Author: John Robbins
Creator: Dean Ornish
Publisher: Conari Pr
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  122 reviews
Sales Rank: 9751
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 340
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 1573247022
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.262
UPC: 645241007021
EAN: 9781573247023
ASIN: 1573247022
Publication Date: July 11, 2001
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Here, the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America, boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. If, according to chaos theory, the beating of a butterfly's wing can cause a hurricane in another part of the world, try this out for chaotic cause and effect: monarch butterflies are dying in droves due to genetically-engineered corn growing in the Midwest. There is also a direct correlation between the Big Mac in your hand and the mile-wide river now running across the North Pole. Learn the truth about foods we are eating that are, in Robbins' words, "unsafe on any plate."
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Excellent book October 25, 2009
S. McCann (Philadelphia, PA)
This book is great, full of great information and educational. Will change the way you eat.
Read it 4 years ago, have been vegan ever since October 6, 2009
Bill Staley (Santa Monica, CA USA)
I also suggest the Omnivore's Dilemna by Michael Pollan and Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman. John is the most passionate, Dr. Joel the most reasoned. I listened to unabridged audiobooks of Omnivore and Food Revolution. Listenable as audiobooks, but both could be shorter and just as effective (or more so).
I can't make any fabulous claims for my own health after 4 years of being vegan and one of also being gluten free (in sympathy for a celiac relative). Guess you don't need books to get the "less calories, more exercise" message. I'm still working on implementing that.
The Food Revolution September 14, 2009
D. Johnson (NH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is packed with information that you will not find in the news. Again, the good of the people has been pushed aside so that large corporations can reap huge profits. Farms are not what they used to be and these corporations don't want us to know how our food is really produced. Genetically engineered organisms are found in most of our food supply...another well kept secret because corporations have been politically successful in keeping this fact off of food labels. Thank you, John Robbins, for your dedication to truth and doing what is right.
Save the Planet and Love yourself... September 14, 2009
Olivia (Los Angeles, CA)
I read John Robbin's book, 'Diet for a New America' before I read 'The Food Revolution' and I wish I had just read this! It's similar, but more of the whole package. It discusses vegetarianism in all aspects unlike, 'Diet for a New America.' All in all, probably the most informative book on vegetarianism I have read.
Also recommended: 'The China Study' by T. Colin Campbell, 'Eat to Live' by Joel Fuhrman, 'Mad Cowboy' Howard Lyman. And Robbin's other book, 'Healthy at 100' is fantastic!
The Answer September 10, 2009
Aramate (San Diego, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
You could buy a Prius for $20,000+, or become Vegan -and still have a bigger impact on saving the environment (I'm not advocating for gas guzzlers either, just stating a point). You could eat whatever you want "because you're going to die of something", or be responsible for your part of the planet and do something that actually makes a difference. Becoming Vegan is the NUMBER ONE thing you can do as a human being to reduce suffering, reduce water pollution, decrease famine, AND prevent disease! In this book, John Robbins elaborates and illustrates how yes, we are not all living in our own realities separate from one another, but how our choices that we make every day impact people across the globe, animals and the land. What you put in your mouth matters. It's easy to live in willful ignorance because one is too attached to their "comfort foods". Comfort? Yeah right, if only everyone new the price that was paid by the world so one could have their "comfort". Gives new meaning to the phrase "guilty pleasures". At the risk of going off on a Vegangelical tirade, I just honestly recommend that everyone read this book. If nothing more than to gain an understanding of where our food comes from. People today are so detached from the process, and as a result have little to no appreciation for the sacrifices that are made by people and animals they've never met. Read this book, and learn how to make a difference. Then make it.
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