Food Revolution

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 500,000+ member Food Revolution Network. Robbins' work has been the subject of cover stories and feature articles in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, 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 California's Santa Cruz Mountains. Dean Ornish, MD, is the founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Ornish was recognized as "one of the 125 most extraordinary University of Texas alumni in the past 125 years;" by TIME magazine as a "TIME 100 Innovator;" by LIFE magazine as "one of the fifty most influential members of his generation;" by People magazine as "one of the most interesting people of the year;" and by Forbes magazine as "one of the world's seven most powerful teachers."

• The Food RevolutionForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the 10th Anniversary Edition1 Introduction: What Is the Food Revolution?PART I Food and Healing2 Healthy Heart, Healthy Life3 Preventing Cancer4 The Great American Diet Roller Coaster5 A Healthy Plant-Based Diet6 Got BS?7 Unsafe On Any Plate8 Policing the PathogensPART II Our Food, Our Fellow Creatures9 The Pig Farmer10 Old McDonald Had a Factory11 Misery on the Menu12 Eating with ConsciencePART III Our Food, Our World13 Choices for a Healthy Environment14 Once Upon a Planet15 Reversing the Spread of HungerPART IV Genetic Engineering16 Pandora's Pantry17 Farmageddon18 The Emperor's New Foods19 The Turning of the Tide20 Conclusion: Our Food, Our FutureResource GuideNotesIndexAbout John Robbins