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The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
Average Customer Review : 5.0/5 based on 106 reviews
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Editorial Reviews
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."
Spotlight Reviews
Not Just for Vegans and Vegetarians (2008-12-03)
Customer Review : 5
It is a testament to John Robbins that this book is still a bestseller on Amazon after so many years. In fact, his book is even more relevant today than it was when it was first published.
Robbins advocates for a vegan diet by mixing compelling stories with facts that support vegetarianism. I saw that one of the reviewers described the book as "sappy", but it's all a matter of perspective. I personally wouldn't want to read a book that was just a list of facts. If I wanted numbers on how many animals were slaughtered in factory farms, I could probably go to an industry website.
That said, even if you're not a vegetarian or a vegan, the book inspires you to think about your habits without being militant in its approach. Only a very cynical person would not be moved by the story about the pig farmer who had repressed a childhood memory (won't say what it is because that would be a spoiler) and then radically changed his life.
So, you don't have to be a vegan or vegetarian to find this book useful and enjoyable to read. It'll make you go, "hmmmm" and think more consciously about how the food you eat affects your health and the planet. And, it will do that without hitting you over the head with dire warnings and guilt-trips.
Exceptionally good book (2008-11-11)
Customer Review : 5
Start reading this engaging book at any place and you'll want to keep going. The author, John Robbins, passed over his heirship to the Baskin and Robbins ice cream success. Without condemning his father and uncle, he transformed his pain by knowing and seeing what too much ice cream and other animal based products do to people into a humanitarian masterpiece.
The book carefully exposes (with thorough endnotes) major fallacies held by most people and, at the same time, provides a realistically attainable solution. And did I mention that it's engaging?
I'm not a vegetarian, not young (I'm 50), not overweight and have no cardiovascular issues. I still believe that killing for food is ethical.
Until reading this book, I usually ate a "well-rounded diet," including red meat, large glasses of whole milk, cheese, chicken and eggs. To me, vegans were cultish, over-board fanatics.
But because of this book, my wife and I now see that a plant based diet is more rational and healthy. Dare I admit that I now want us and our children to become vegans?
Reading this book compels the conclusion that we act in our own self-interest, as well as the planet's, by eating a plant based diet. The book shatters myths regarding the supposed need to eat meat, dairy and eggs. It illuminates the misinformation spread by the cattle, swine and poultry industries. To achieve and keep whatever strength, smarts and health we can, this book cogently asserts that we'd be better off eliminating animal products.
As a beacon that approaches its subject with zeal while maintaining an objective tone (usually) and compassion for us who are ignorant (always). The thinking set forth in this book could truly change our lives and eventually our planet.
If you can't afford it, borrow it from a friend or library.
Covers every issues related to meat - Great Book (2008-10-24)
Customer Review : 5
I loved this book because it covered all aspects of the world that are touched by the meat industry. He talks about the way animals are raised, fed and massacred. Then John brings up the environment and how it is suffering from our hunger for meat, how we are using the resources of our planet, polluting it and marking it for years to come. He then brings the human consequences, how it affects our health, not only from eating meat, but also from how the polluted environment affects us. To this we can't forget the horrible conditions in which meat packing workers are subjected.
A must read that will lead you to want to learn even more about it, and he offers a panoply of resources you can use to verify his information.
Life changing book.
TRULY REVOLUTIONARY (2008-08-31)
Customer Review : 5
THROW ALL YOUR "DIET" BOOKS OUT THE WINDOW! THIS BOOK WILL TRULY OPEN YOUR EYE'S AND YOU WILL "FINALLY" DISCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW WE SHOULD BE EATING, WEIGHT LOSS AND, EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, HELP TO PUT AN END TO THE HORRENDOUS TORTURE OF INNOCENT ANIMALS. ALSO HIGHLY RECOMMEND "THE CHINA STUDY" BY T. COLEN CAMPBELL PHD. YOU WON'T BE DISSAPOINTED.
Great!!!!! (2008-06-04)
Customer Review : 5
I ordered The Food Revolution as a gift. I had absolutely "zero" problems with this transaction. PS. I love this book/author.
Wendy
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