The Food Revolution

How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

By: John Robbins

Narrated by: John Robbins

Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

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."

©2001 John Robbins (P)2001 Phoenix Books

Critic reviews

“The message is enough to scare you straight off processed foods.” ( AudioFile)

“Well researched and lucidly written… this book is sure to spark discussion and incite readers to examine their food choices.” ( Publishers Weekly)

“Those who want to know more about vegan diets will gain many insights from his provocative book.” ( Library Journal)

Great info. Too extremist

Even when I think all the information in the book good and true, I didn't like how extremist and redundant it was at times.

LOVED THE BOOK!

I loved the book as I do all of John's books! I AM SO SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT RIVER PHOENIX. I DID NOT KNOW THIS UNTIL I LISTEN TO THE WHOLE BOOK.. 🙏 MY PRAYERS ARE WITH ALL THE FAMILY. SORRY FOR THE OTHERS THAT HAVE PASSED AWAY ALSO BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THEM BUT WHEN I HEARD THE NAME RIVER PHOENIX IT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION. SORRY FOR EVERYONE!! They will all be in the Resurrection someday. please look up jw.org. (look up what happens at death) it's beautiful to know this knowledge! thank you for your time and your great work Cheri

Epic

another great book that will enlighten it's readers to be better and healthier citizens of humanity

A real eye opener

First I read How Not To Die, then The China Study. Now The Food Revolution. They have all been so informative. This one is especially an eye opener. I never thought I would become a vegetarian; certainly not a vegan. but when my 23 yr old son decided to give up animal products to lower his cholesterol, I became concerned about the usual misconceptions. Was he getting enough protein and calcium? He was already thin and at first he dropped weight quickly. I was sure he was losing muscle mass. So I ordered these books to learn how to support him and help him get adequate nutrition. Now I'm eating a whole food, plant based diet with him. His weight has leveled off and his cholesterol numbers are improving. I no longer believe the false advertising and lies of the dairy, meat, fast food and even the agricultural industries I am so grateful to have found doctors who are doing all they can to spread the truth. Thanks to this book I now understand that it is not only healthy for humans to consume a Whole Food, Plant Based Diet, but it is also healthier for our planet. I don't know how much of an impact I alone can have on helping our planet, but I believe I am about to change my own future and I feel responsible for doing whatever I can to improve the future of this planet which does all it can to sustain us. it's the least I can do.

Important read for everyone who wants the truth about food!

So much a didn't know about the politics and payoffs behind the advancement of GMO foods and the politicians in the pockets of Monsanto! And why it is so important to educate ourselves on why we need to eat more plant based and organic foods. For our well being and our planets!

very comprehensive and informative book!

Great overview of the ways in which what we eat has dramatic impacts on our health, on wild and domestic life, on the climate and health of the earth,
and on politics.

Great Book

Any additional comments?

This book literally changed my life when I first read it in early 2000. It should be required reading (or listening) for all. I also highly recommend the Food Revolution summits that John Robbins and his son Ocean hold. Knowledge is power.

Exceptional I will also buy in print.

If you care about your health if you care about your family's health a must for your library!!!!

Outstanding book.

I couldn't put it down. Lots of insight information. Very inspiring and give humanity hope.

Informative!

Read A Diet for a New America, when it came out put me on a path to becoming a vegetarian, this one is putting me on a path to becoming a vegan. It is eye opening to the global implications of a meat based diet. John Robbins is not only a really good writer but does great as a narrator!