John Robbins’ bestselling book, Diet for a New America (1987), shifted our paradigm by linking human health, animal welfare and the environment. Today, it’s common knowledge, backed by science, that our food choices not only effect our individual health, but also impact the health of our planet and the well-being of other sentient beings.
In this episode of The Shame Free Zone, John Robbins reveals factory farming’s dire impacts on human health while also sharing his hopeful vision of a world based on love.
John Robbins is the author of nine best-selling books that have collectively sold more than 3 million copies and have been translated into 31 languages. He is the co-founder and president of Food Revolution Network which has 750,000 active members and has enrolled more than 2 million people in its annual Food Revolution Summit that John hosts with his son, Ocean Robbins. John has received the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award and the Peace Abbey’s Courage of Conscience Award.