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Diet
For A New America Book
Diet
For A New America - How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health,
Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth, is widely considered
to be one of the most influential books on health, compassion,
and the environment ever written in the English language.
It has sold more than 1,000,000 copies, and at the turn of
the century, it was heralded as among the ten most important
books of the 20th century by numerous organizations working
for a joyous, fair, and sustainable world.
A quote
from Diet For A New America:
"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."
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Diet
For A New America Video:
This
is the award-winning 60-minute public television documentary
of John Robbins' Diet For A New America. When it was first
produced by KCET, the Los Angeles PBS affiliate, the National
Cattlemen's Association mounted an aggressive campaign to
discredit the program and keep it from being aired. But the
attempt to thwart the show failed, and the program went on
to be one of public television's all-time most successful
documentaries. When the Los Angeles Times described what happened
in a lead editorial, the newspaper called this documentary:
"Controversial, powerful and beautiful… the kind
of thing that public television should be doing, and often
isn't... Outstanding!"
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The
Awakened Heart Book
"When
we open to ourselves, our lives, and our Earth as sacred, something
changes. When we allow the spirit of the Earth to touch us,
when we live in contact with the trees, the clouds, the moon,
and the soil, when we know that the animals and plants and rocks
are our neighbors, then something precious begins to awaken.
The forests become cathedrals, and the birds singing in the
trees become choirs. We experience all forms of life as part
of a great fellowship, and we begin to realize what a tremendous
privilege and joy it is to be able to live harmoniously with
the whole fabric of Creation." |
