The Food Revolution

How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

By: John Robbins

Narrated by: John Robbins

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 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!

Bill

Excellent book!! Eye-opening and informative. Even though it was written some time ago it still rings true in today'world. We need to make changes, not only for our own health but for the health of the world we live in. It appears very much like industrialized humans are the cancer on our planet. And if we don't change the way we think, eat and respect our environment then the human race will, for different reasons, follow the same path as the dinosaurs.

the best overall story of our lives,

loved the book. easy to finish, enjoyed the voice thoroughly and very well written. the best story of our lives.

Great book, narration was flat

Great book. If you are vegan, thought of being one, or just in general care about animals or the planet and don’t want to see either ruined, then you will enjoy this book.

The narrator (author) reads most of the book, but there are other voices used for quotes from people or organizations, or citing research. I really like the multiple voices as it helps keep everything clear. My only gripe is every single voice, even the author, sound like a computer is reading it. Imagine Siri reading the book. No inflection, no varying speed or volume or excitement. All monotone. If they did a better job with narration this would have been one of my best books ever.

Still, John writes good.

Scary book!

This book is full of warnings I've heard throughout my life, but it's got them all packaged in 1 rhetorically charged combination. It definitely solidified some of my thoughts gm foods, and made me really re-think some of my other dietary choices.

Essential reading for everyone

If you want to consider what you eat, read this book.
Thought provoking, inspiring and infuriating at the same time.
If you care about the world we live in or if self preservation is an instinct you possess... READ THIS BOOK!

Great listen

Would you listen to The Food Revolution again? Why?

I have listened to it several times

What did you like best about this story?

A simple yet comprehensive and inspirational guide to adopting a healthier diet.

Have you listened to any of John Robbins’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

This is my first listen to him and I enjoyed it very much.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I have listened to the last chapter at least ten times.