Diet for a New America
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From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened
the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of
Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States
has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing
to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America
is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a
New America is a startling examination of the food we currently
buy and eat in the United States, and the astounding moral,
economic, and emotional price we pay for it.
In Section I, John Robbins takes an extraordinary look at
our dependence on animals for food and the inhumane conditions
under which these animals are raised. It becomes clear that
the price we pay for our eating habits is measured in the
suffering of animals, a suffering so extreme and needless
that it disrupts our very place in the web of life.
Section II challenges the belief that consuming meat is a
requirement for health by pointing our the vastly increased
rate of disease caused by pesticides, hormones, additives,
and other chemicals now a routine part of our food production.
The author shows us that the high health risk is unnecessary,
and that the production, preparation, and consumption of food
can once again be a healthy process.
In Section III, Robbins looks at the global implications of
a meat-based diet and concludes that the consumption of the
resources necessary to produce meat is a major factor in our
ecological crisis.
Diet for a New America is the single most eloquent argument
for a vegetarian lifestyle ever published. Eloquently, evocatively,
and entertainingly written, it is a cant put down book guaranteed
to amaze, infuriate, but ultimately educate and empower the
reader. A pivotal book nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for
Non-Fiction in 1987.
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