Diet for a New America 25th Anniversary Edition: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Your Happiness, and the Future of Life on EarthOriginally published in 1987, Diet for a New America awakened the conscience of a nation with its startling examination of the food we buy and eat — and the moral, economic, and medical price we pay for it. Drawing a clear line connecting America’s factory farm system with disease, animal cruelty, and ecological crises, Robbins makes perhaps the most eloquent argument for vegetarianism ever published. Robbins walked away from his family’s business — the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire — to pursue his dream of promoting a healthy society that practices “compassionate stewardship of a balanced ecosystem.” In Diet for a New America he presents both a disturbing portrait of our current system and a vision for the future that will educate and empower readers to change. |
Contents
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2 Brave New Chicken | 31 |
3 The Most Unjustly Maligned of All Animals | 55 |
4 Holy Cow | 79 |
5 Any Way You Slice It Its Still Bologna | 103 |
Part Two | 127 |
6 Different Strokes for Different Folks | 129 |
7 The Rise and Fall of the Protein Empire | 151 |
10 An Ounce of Prevention | 251 |
Part Three | 283 |
11 America the Poisoned | 285 |
12 All Things Are Connected | 325 |
Epilogue to the 25th Anniversary Edition | 355 |
Endnotes | 371 |
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About the Author | 419 |
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