The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

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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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Food and me and us
I love this book. In this book, Mr. John Robbins provides his insight about our plates and our health and our planet. Very insightful and inspirational!

Exquisite work!
Let me start by saying that every human being on this planet should read this book. The words "life altering" come to mind. I think that this book will change the life of anyone that reads it, well assuming he/she acts. John Robbins' writes this book so well. Every statement that he makes he backs up with numerous sources, data, and examples. It made me realize the many other reasons that I do not eat meat, eggs, and dairy. Not only because of the incredible harm it causes to the animals on this planet and not only because of the immense amount of damage it has, is, and will cause to the planet itself but the truth behind meat, dairy, and eggs. It is simply unhealthy. I knew that as a vegan I am eating the most healthy diet. What I did not realize is how unhealthy it is to eat meat, dairy, and eggs and what a much much greater risk those that do are to so many diseases and other health conditions.

What this book also did for me was to realize that there is hope out there. People are slowly changing their ways and I bet that anyone out there who reads this book and eats meat, dairy, and eggs will absolutely think twice and will more likely stop. No one wants to be unhealthy. No one wants to be at a high risk for so many diseases. No one in their heart truly believes that animals should be butchered and exploited. I really do believe that. I think what is hard for people to make the switch is a few simple points that John makes: (1) society is too separated from the process and animals that are killed to make the products that they buy, those people just see it on the shelf and think it is best not knowing how it got there (2) Meat industries, fast food chains, milk commercials, make-up commercials, and egg industries are lying to their faces, telling them how they "need" these items, when truthfully there are better more animal-friendly, eco-friendly, and healthy ways to get those vitamins, minerals, and luxuries like makeup (3) is that many people have a slight idea of what is going on but rather ignore it because it is "easier." Sure it is painful to know the truth of what is happening to our animals, planet, and humans (i.e. obesity and malnutrition), but it is such a pleasure to know that I, a plant-based eater only, is no part of that. One will find that the decision to be healthy is actually not that hard at all. Open-mindedness and open-heartedness is the key to the success of our future and I feel that we can all be open-minded and that we are all truly open-hearted (even if we hide it at times). Please, all, I ask is that you just read the first 100 pages of this book. It will change your life and everyone around you as well. :)

Eyeopener
Great information presented in a very readable way. Lots of controversial topics addressed with documented resources and citations for the information. Changes your perspective on everything ayou bring home from the supermarket. It feels great to be a more educated consumer.

A GREAT read for ANYONE!
My neighbor has been a vegetarian. One day we were talking and he gave me his copy. I later bought my copy. It has VERY interesting information, all given in a calm, seemingly scientific manner. He enjoys a fact vs fiction style. He often describes "things people say" and then goes on to use what seems to be pretty factual stuff to present a good case for going vegetarian. Even though I have not changed my eating style too much (I do enjoy a hamburger), there are many great points for us all to learn, whether vegetarian or not. For example, we need to address the meat handling and processing issues that he describes. We all would certainly do better by eating less meat and more grains, fruits and vegetables.

If you buy the book (and I do recommend you do), be sure to read the first part where he describes his family background. Note his last name. It is a very interesting story.

Good perspective on farm raised meat and what they do for profit...
I bought this book because I saw John on some tv show and he looked healthy and talked about how he walked away from the Baskin-Robbins fortune. I'm not vegeterian, but am open to eating more veggie meals as part of my diet. What I don't like is in a lot of these books, it's an all or nothing approach with some of these writers, and John is all/nothing in his stance in this book about being vegetarian. That is the right choice for him, but we all don't make that choice, I think a lot of us strive for a balance.

I thought this would be a good book to understand what he was doing in terms of his health and getting away from the 'lifestyle'. It is an interesting read, it could have been a lot shorter about all the different chemicals/farming/marketing issues, but it was good to understand that stuff too. I think he could have consolidated that and spent more time on eating healthier, how to incorporate vegeterian meals, etc...

Statistics and people with models are always interesting when they start quoting facts...read the black swan book to understand that perspective). Case in point...He has some quotes about dairy and how we shouldn't drink milk and that 2/3 of the world doesn't drink milk and that most races outside of american/european whites are lactose intolerant....well some of that has to do with geography too...my grandfathers lived well into their 80's and were healthy and they ate cheese, meat, milk, bread...etc... They didn't have osteo or any other major issues. They ate everything in balance and in seasons. The stuff they ate though was not full of chemicals we are eating today as the farms in europe they grew up on, didn't have these luxuries available to them. I think every race eats what they have in their geography. Go to a small Eastern European town and see what having a Cow means to a family. It's a difference between normal life and borderline starvation...They have milk they can sell, they use the milk to make cheese and they farm their vegetables. In the winter no veggies, so you have to get by with the potatoes, peppers, onions, you have saved from your farm and you have to take care of your cow that is giving you the rest of that balance.

I think the best point he makes is about the veal industry and how abuses there have been made public and have impacted that industry to change...my thought here is why not do the same for the chicken/beef/pork industries as well? (hint...we can but choose not to because most of us vote with our $$$$ in the supermarkets everyday on what should/shouldn't be on the shelves)

I guess when I think of food revolution, I think of getting back to basics/ portion control/ balance/ and getting rid of the chemicals as much as possible in the foods we eat...

I give this book 2 stars because I didn't get the sense that there was a food revolution being shown here (unless you believe the food revolution is to go veggie)...but that is unrealistic at this point in our society and I think people have a hard time accepting that view now. Could we as a society be vegetarians 100 years from now? Maybe...but it won't happen overnight...start voting with your $$$ now though and at least in our lifetime we can see a change to what we want to eat...for me it's balance...

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