John Robbins (author)

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John Robbins (born October 26, 1947) is an American author, and a pioneer popularizing the linkages between agriculture, health and the environment. He is the son of Irma Robbins and Baskin-Robbins co-founder Irv Robbins. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969, and received a Master's Degree from Antioch College, in 1976. Rather than following the ice-cream parlor legacy of his father, he left the company to seek a life he found more rewarding. He and his wife Deo were married on March 10, 1967.[1] Robbins advocates a plant-based diet for personal and environmental health. In 1987, he wrote Diet for a New America, an exposé on connections between diet, physical health, animal cruelty, and environmentalism. He updated these ideas in his 2001 book The Food Revolution, which includes information on organic food, genetically modified food, and factory farming. His 2006 book Healthy at 100, published by Random House, was printed on 100% post-consumer non-chlorine bleached paper, a first for a book from a major U.S. publisher.

His 1987 book Diet for a New America advocates a "plant-based," vegan diet and contains Robbins's opinions on the meat and dairy industries, world hunger and human health.

The documentary film Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock has a short interview with Robbins.[2]

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[edit] EarthSave

In 1988, Robbins founded EarthSave, an international, non-profit organization. The organization was born out of the reader response to his Diet for a New America.[3] The organization works to promote healthy, environmentally sound food choices, produce independence from the medical system and raise awareness of "the ecological destruction and cruelty linked to the production of food animals."

EarthSave's head office is in New York, USA, with local chapters throughout the United States and Canada. "Taste of Health" is their annual vegetarian food festival.

[edit] Books by Robbins

  • Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth, 1987.
  • May All Be Fed: Diet For a New World, 1992.
  • Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing, 1996.
  • The Awakened Heart: Meditations on Finding Harmony in a Changing World, 1997.
  • The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 2001.
  • Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples, 2006.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Robbins, John (2001). The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World. Conari Press. ISBN 1-57324-702-2. 
  2. ^ Responses to Healthy at 100 - Healthy at 100 ::: by John Robbins
  3. ^ EarthSave International

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