Who is John Robbins
Ranked #21,958 in Healthy Living, #311,614 overall | Donates to Humane Society of the United States, ASPCA
John Robbins Author of "Diet for a New America"
John Robbins- Early Life
"...pursue the deeper American Dream...the dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms. A dream of a society that is truly healthy, practicing a wise and compassionate stewardship of a balanced ecosystem."
Robbins attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1969 and continuing his education at Antioch College, receiving his Master's Degree in 1976. He married his wife Deo on March 10, 1967 and they currently live just outside of Santa Cruz, California with their son Ocean and his wife Michele, and their grandsons River and Bodhi.
Choices
"The choices that we make today as to the way we treat each other, the way we raise our children, the kinds of families and communities we create, will determine how the future unfolds. If we treat each other one way, we can cultivate people driven by a death urge, who are despondent and mean. If we treat each other another way, if we encourage and uphold our essential goodness and capacity for loving connection, we can nurture a society of people who are healthy and whole and whose lives will bring healing, peace, and joy to those they touch.
I believe that the real news on this planet is love-why it exists, where it came from, and where it is going. I believe that ultimately it is the love in our lives that underlies and makes possible our greatest healing and longevity.
Whether we acknowledge it or not, we all have a choice to be either accomplices in the status quo or everyday revolutionaries. We have a choice whether to succumb to the cultural trance, eat fast food, and race by each other in the night, or to build lives of caring, substance, and healing. So much depends on that choice."
-John Robbins
Diet for a New America
By John Robbins
Written in 1987, "Diet for a New America" is John Robbins first book.
"A the present time, when most of us sit down to eat, we aren't very aware of how our food choices affect the world. We don't realize that in every Big Mac there is a piece of the tropical rainforests, and with every billion burgers sold another hundred species become extinct. We don't realize that in the sizzle of our steaks there is the suffering of animals, the mining of our topsoil, the slashing of our forests, the harming of our economy, and the eroding of our health. We don't hear in the sizzle the cry of the hungry millions who might otherwise be fed. We don't see the toxic poisons accumulating in the food chains, poisoning our children and our earth for generations to come. But once we become aware of the impact of our food choices, we can never really forget. Of course we can push it all to the back of our minds, and we may need to do this, at times, to endure the enormity of what is involved.
But the earth itself will remind us, as will our children, and the animals and the forests and the sky and the rivers, that we are part of this earth, and it is part of us. All things are deeply connected, and so the choices we make in our daily lives have enormous influence, not only on our own health and vitality, but also on the lives of other beings, and indeed on the destiny of life on earth.
Thankfully, we have cause to be grateful-what's best for us personally is also best for other forms of life, and for the life support systems on which we all depend."
-- from the book Diet For A New America
EarthSave International
- EarthSave International - promoting a shift toward a healthy plant-based diet
- EarthSave promotes food choices that are healthy for people and the planet. We educate, inspire and empower people to shift toward a plant-based diet and to take compassionate action for all life on Earth.
- EarthSave leads a global movement of people from all walks of life who are taking concrete steps to promote healthy and life-sustaining food choices.
- EarthSave supplies information, support and practical programs to those who have learned that their food choices impact environmental and human health.
- We support individuals in making food choices that promote health, reduce health care costs, and provide greater independence from the medical system.
- We raise awareness of the ecological destruction linked to the production of "food animals."
- We advocate and promote a delicious, planet-friendly diet.
May All be Fed: Diet for a New World
by John Robbins
Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Sources of True Healing
by John Robbins
The Awakened Heart: Meditations on Finding Harmony in a Changing World
By John Robbins
The Food Revolution: How your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples
by John Robbins
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John Robbins and the causes he is fighting for
- EarthSave International - promoting a shift toward a healthy plant-based diet
- EarthSave promotes food choices that are healthy for people and the planet. We educate, inspire and empower people to shift toward a plant-based diet and to take compassionate action for all life on Earth.
- The Food Revolution
- The Food Revolution reveals the truth about popular diets, genetically modified foods, mad cow disease, and the health effects of what you eat. In this long-awaited and provocative book and accompanying web site, best-selling author John Robbins exposes the dangers behind many of today's foods and r
- Healthy at 100 ::: by John Robbins
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Recommended Reading
If you are a fan of John Robbins, here are some other books you might enjoy.
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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II
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Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet by Brenda Davis, Vesanto Melina
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No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy: Our Diet by Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, Joanna Samorow-Merzer
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MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat by Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer
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the Diet for a New America video produced by PBS based on John Robbins Book. If you have never read John Robbins books this is a great video series to learn about this remarkable man and how you can make a difference just by changing your eating habits.
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