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Index
Cover Page
Praise for The Food Revolution
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the 10th Anniversary Edition
Healthy People, Healthy Planet
A Time for Action
chapter 1: Introduction What Is the Food Revolution?
PART I
chapter 2: Healthy Heart, Healthy Life
Scientific Data or Industry Propaganda?
Treating Heart Disease
How to Lower Blood Pressure
Breaking Free
chapter 3: Preventing Cancer
The Search for a Cure
Focus on Prevention
When Prevention And Profits Don't Mix
Breast Cancer
Lung Cancer
Prostate Cancer
Colon Cancer
What We Hear
My Friend Mike
chapter 4: The Great American Diet Roller Coaster
Weight Loss Programs
Dr. Atkins' Diet—Good Advice or Carbo Phobia?
Entering the Zone—An Honest Look
Eat Right for Your Type?
chapter 5: A Healthy Plant-Based Diet
The Meat Industry Enters the Fray
Trusted Friends?
A Healthy Plant-Based Diet
Taking a Stand
chapter 6: Got BS?
The Calcium Conspiracy
Cow's Milk versus Soy Milk
The Dairy Industry Feels Threatened
You Never Know What to Expect
chapter 7: Unsafe On Any Plate
Food-Borne Disease
Public Citizen Speaks
Food Irradiation
E. Coli 0157:H7—The Hamburger Disease
Campylobacter
Salmonella
Listeria
The Safest Meat Supply in the World?
chapter 8: Policing the Pathogens
Safety Last
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Hormones in U.S. Meat
Mad Cows and Mad Cowboys
PART II
chapter 9: The Pig Farmer
chapter 10: Old McDonald Had a Factory
Not Humanity at Its Finest
The Veil Begins to Lift
Did Somebody Say McLibel?
PETA Enters the Fray
chapter 11: Misery on the Menu
The Veal Calf
The Golden Egg
Brave New Chicken
What about Free Range and Natural?
What about Babe?
Celebrities for Sanity
chapter 12: Eating with Conscience
What We Feed the Animals We Eat
Just Ma, Pa, and a Few Animals?
World's Largest Meat Packer Caught Red-Handed
The Battle Continues
Hope in Europe
Now What?
A Letter
The Journey
PART III
chapter 13: Choices for a Healthy Environment
Stewards of the Planet?
Where's Our Water Going?
Running On Empty
The Other End of the Cow, Pig, and Chicken
The Water You Drink
Wasting the West
chapter 14: Once Upon a Planet
Trading Tropical Rainforests for Cheeseburgers
The Heat Is On
Gas Pains
Saving Species, One Bite at a Time
Once Upon a Planet
Waking Up in the Most Unlikely of All Places
chapter 15: Reversing the Spread of Hunger
Who Eats? And Who Doesn't?
Feeding Cows, Not People
Fishful Thinking
Is Fish Farming the Answer?
May All Be Fed
PART IV
chapter 16: Pandora's Pantry
Grand Hopes
The Biotech Industry
Rounding Up Profits
What about World Hunger?
Suicide Seeds
Are the Risks Overblown?
The Industry No One Will Insure
chapter 17: Farmageddon
Genetic Roulette
The L-Tryptophan Story
Milk from Drugged Cows
Health Problems from Eating Genetically Engineered Foods?
Regulatory Agencies Out to Lunch
Labeling It Like It Is
chapter 18: The Emperor's New Foods
Leaky Genes
Frankenfoods
Pesticides in Every Cell
At the Grocery Store and Restaurant
Products Made from Plants
Products Made from Animals
chapter 19: The Turning of the Tide
Keeping a Good Sense of Humus
The Turning of the Tide
chapter 20: Conclusion Our Food, Our Future
This Moment on Earth
Resource Guide
Notes
Introduction to the 10 Anniversary Edition
chapter 2 Healthy Heart, Healthy Life
chapter 3 Preventing Cancer
chapter 4 The Great American Diet Roller Coaster
chapter 5 A Healthy Plant-Based Diet
chapter 6 Got BS?
chapter 7 Unsafe On Any Plate
chapter 8 Policing the Pathogens
chapter 10 Old McDonald Had a Factory.
chapter 11 Misery on the Menu
chapter 12 Eating with Conscience
chapter 13 Choices for a Healthy Environment
chapter 14 Once Upon a Planet
chapter 15 Reversing the Spread of Hunger
chapter 16 Pandora's Pantry
chapter 17 Farmageddon
chapter 18 The Emperor's New Foods
chapter 19 The Turning of the Tide
Index
About John Robbins
To Our Readers
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