The Food Revolution or Roasted Vegetable

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

Author: 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."

Publishers Weekly

Groomed to succeed his late father (cofounder of the world's largest ice cream company, Baskin-Robbins), bestselling author Robbins (Diet for a New America) chose to walk away from ice cream earnings for a "deeper dream," staying true to his belief in health and environment over corporate profit margins. Now chairman and director of several nonprofit organizations, Robbins offers compelling evidence to support his plant-based diet. Appalled by the proliferation of high-protein, fad diet books, he advocates eating locally, organically grown fruits and vegetables, incorporating whole grains and drinking lots of water while avoiding animal products and processed, refined and fatty foods. Divided into five ambiguously named parts ("Our Food, Our World"; "Our Food, Our Future"), this work nimbly covers such diverse topics as agricultural chemical pollution, the diet/disease connection, genetic engineering and inhumane corporate farming practices, while maintaining a conversational, nonjudgmental tone. Robbins's experience as a speaker and his use of personal anecdotes and persuasive arguments are complemented by several professional readers who frequently interject relevant statistics, information and research, both pro and con, including sometimes sarcastically read statements from the Cattlemen's Association, which will leave listeners thinking twice before picking up their next hamburger. Based on the Conari Press paperback (Forecasts, May 21). (Aug.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Robbins, author of the classic Diet for a New America, believes that plant-based nutrition and particularly vegan diets (free of meat, milk, and eggs) lead to long life and good health. Citing statistics, research studies, and selected quotes that extol the benefits of such diets, he also argues that animal products are responsible for such diseases as obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and cancer. Robbins deplores the inadequate sanitation and inspection in meat-processing plants and argues that many of the illnesses and stomach ailments that people complain about result from animal agriculture and the pathogens it introduces into our bodies. He also raises concerns about the dangers of fad diets that advocate high carbohydrates, high protein, or high fat. Robbins's zealous advocacy of plant-based nutrition and his refusal to consider the need for animal products in human nutrition throws his book off balance. Nevertheless, those who want to know more about vegan diets will gain many insights from his provocative book. Recommended for large nutrition collections with a diversity of viewpoints. [For more diet and nutrition books, see Anne Tomlin's "A Balanced Diet of Nutrition Resources" in LJ's May 1 consumer health supplement. Ed.] Irwin Weintraub, Brooklyn College Lib., New York Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Foreword	xiii
Acknowledgments	xix
1 Introduction: What Is the Food Revolution?	1
PART I Food and Healing
2 Healthy Heart, Healthy Life	11
3 Preventing Cancer	33
4 The Great American Diet Roller Coaster	55
5 A Healthy Plant-Based Diet	81
6 Got BS?	97
7 Unsafe On Any Plate	113
8 Policing the Pathogens	135
PART II Our Food, Our Fellow Creatures
9 The Pig Farmer	153
10 Old McDonald Had a Factory	165
11 Misery on the Menu	183
11 Eating with Conscience	205
PART III Our Food, Our World
13 Choices for a Healthy Environment	231
14 Once Upon a Planet	253
15 Reversing the Spread of Hunger	283
PART IV Genetic Engineering
16 Pandora's Pantry	305
17 Farmageddon	325
18 The Emperor's New Foods	347
19 The Turning of the Tide	365
20 Conclusion: OurFood, Our Future	381
About John Robbins, EarthSave, and YES!	387
Resource Guide	389
Notes	399
Index	443

See also: Freedom and Accountability at Work or Industrial Organization

Roasted Vegetable: How to Roast Everything from Artichokes to Zucchini for Big, Bold Flavors in Pasta, Pizza, Risotto, Side Dishes, Couscous, Dips, Sandwiches, and Salads

Author: Andrea Chesman

Andrea Chesman assembles a mouthwatering collection of 150 meat-free recipes, from simple sides to main dishes.

Library Journal

Chesman is the prolific author of more than a dozen cookbooks, including The Vegetarian Grill. Her recipes tend to be fresh, easy, and flavorful, and here she offers a delicious array of roasted vegetable dishes, from the World's Best Green Beans (when she started writing the book, she says, she never imagined that her kids would eat green beans as a snack!) to Roasted Potato Salad with Herbs and Parmesan Dressing to Linguine with Roasted Ratatouille. For most collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.