Diet for a New America
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Manufacturer: HJ Kramer
Written By: John Robbins
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.1929
EAN: 9780915811816
ISBN: 0915811812
Label: HJ Kramer
Manufacturer: HJ Kramer
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 1998-04-14
Publisher: HJ Kramer
Studio: HJ Kramer
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Editorial Reviews for 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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Summary: Diet for a New America
Comment: I am 2/3 finished with this book and I find it outstanding. All Americans should not only read this book, but realize the bad habits that the great American diet has caused to their bodies and this planet.
Parents must read this book before forcing milk, milk products and meat products down the throats of their children.
Had I read this book 7 years ago I might not be suffering with severe osteoporosis due to forcing dairy products into my body to give me enough calcium to build my bones...Instead, my bones have been depleted of the calicum that it needed. Also, I most likely would not have the high cholestrol levels that were acquired from the dairy products.
America needs a wake-up call and this is one of those wake-up calls. I am no longer eating meat or dairy products.
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Summary: Life changer
Comment: After hearing John Robbins interviewed on NPR probably 20 years ago, I bought this book. While reading it, I began making changes in my life, and within a year I was vegan and have been ever since. For me, his presentation was convincing in such a straight forward and compassionate way. Without trying to force his ideas, he uncovers an industry (when done at the farm factory level - not small family/organic farming) that is unhealthy for the environment, damages humanity, and supports a diet that doesn't do much good for our physical health. We have a lot more options now, with organic meats, no hormones, etc, but for me, leaving animals out of my diet is still the right choice.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!
Comment: I am very satisfied with the book I received. I was provided prompt accurate information regarding my shipment and the book was in great condition!
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Summary: Best. Book. Ever.
Comment: I read this book 20 years ago. Since then I've read several hundred books, but none more powerful than this. After reading this book, I turned vegetarian for three years. It took three years for the haunting images to dissipate enough for me to start eating meat. But I will never forget what I read. I recently started a blog concerning factory farms among other corporate badness: [...].
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Summary: Just what American Needs
Comment: Just what kind of a diet does a new America need? According to John Robbins author of Diet for a New America, it is a vegetarian diet. In his book, which is slightly outdated having been published in 1987, he explains the lives of animals in factory farms, and as they spend their last moments moving down through the production line. The book is divided into three sections, which allows for an easy to read flow. In addition the book is complete with information regarding animal husbandry in today's society, how to maintain a healthy vegetarian diet, and the future of the environment. All of these come together to make a wonderful book, which you want to keep reading.
The only downfall to the book is the amount of time that has passed since it was originally published. An updated version would be wonderful and great to look back to see if anything has really changed since Robbins first wrote Diet for a New America. Yet, with Robbins clear passion for the subject he is educating and the way that he writes really makes the book is worth reading. The book is really an eye opener for those that don't know much about the treatment of animals and should be read by every meat eater in America.
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