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John Robbins. Diet for a New America 25th Anniversary Edition
Praise for Diet for a New America by John Robbins
Also by John Robbins
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PUBLISHER’S PROLOGUE TO THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1. ALL GOD’S CRITTERS HAVE A PLACE IN THE CHOIR
The Most Selfless Animal in the World
Who Is the Animal?
Dolphins to the Rescue
Man’s Best Friend at His Best
Unlikely Heroes
The Value of Life Itself
A Guide Duck for the Blind
The Trapper and the Beaver Cubs
You Reap What You Sow
The Easiest Way to Be Wrong Again
Do Animals Suffer?
We All Need Love
Intelligence
Incredible Journeys
An Elephant with a Sweet Tooth
Fresh from the Lap of God
What the Children Know
My Dream
9. LOSING A WAR WE COULD PREVENT
Halfway Where?
Two Searches
Prevention
Colon Cancer
Breast Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Cancer of the Endometrium (Uterus)
Ovarian Cancer
Prostate Cancer
Lung Cancer
Whatever Happened to the War on Cancer?
10. AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION
Diabetes
Hypoglycemia
Multiple Sclerosis
Ulcers
Constipation and Other Intestinal Problems
Obesity
Arthritis
Kidney Stones
Gallstones
Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
Anemia
Asthma
Salmonellosis
Good-Bye Antibiotics
And Now
11. AMERICA THE POISONED
The Sexual Nightmare
Silent Spring
The Food Chain
What’s Good for Dow Chemical Company
The Truth
The Tip of the Iceberg
Dioxin
Heptachlor
Poisoned Pork
There Goes Michigan
Our Immune Systems Aren’t Immune
AIDS and More
PCBs
Something Smells Fishy
Keep It Down…Someone Might Be Listening
The Pharmaceutical Farm
The Government as Protector
The Good News
Reducing Your Intake of Pesticides
Contaminated Mother’s Milk
The Gene Pool
Now What?
12. ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED
Wasting the Food We Have
War Is Hell
The Ground beneath Our Feet
Mother Earth
Timber!
Our Oxygen Partners
Half of All Species on Earth
The Fountain of Life
Quite a Pile
The Energy Crisis and Nuclear Power
Hard-Nosed Businessmen
The Unforgettable Dream
EPILOGUE TO THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Animals
Health
The Environment
A Step We Can Take
Taking a Stand
ENDNOTES. Chapter One. All God’s Critters Have a Place in the Choir
Chapter Two. Brave New Chicken
Chapter Three. The Most Unjustly Maligned of All Animals
Chapter Four. Holy Cow
Chapter Five. Any Way You Slice It, It’s Still Bologna
Chapter Six. Different Strokes for Different Folks
Chapter Seven. The Rise and Fall of the Protein Empire
Chapter Eight. Food for the Caring Heart
Chapter Nine. Losing a War We Could Prevent
Chapter Ten. An Ounce of Prevention
Chapter Eleven. America the Poisoned
Chapter Twelve. All Things Are Connected
Epilogue to the 25th Anniversary Edition
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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“Diet for a New America…is the most important book of our generation.”
—Dan Millman, author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior
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There is a relationship between the capacity of a being to love and its capacity to suffer, regardless of its species. If a being, of whatever species, has the capacity to give and receive love, then certainly it will suffer if that capacity is thwarted. This is one of the reasons all the wisdom traditions of the world teach us that a sure way to make yourself miserable is not to express your love.
We need both to receive and to give love. Love is food for our souls, and without it we suffer greatly, just as we suffer physically if we starve. Have you ever watched an infant carefully, while it is being stroked and petted? We all know babies love and thrive on this kind of attention, but have you ever looked closely at the physiological changes they undergo? There is a distinct and well-defined pattern in their young nervous systems. The heart rate slows down, muscles relax, peristaltic waves increase, and digestive juices flow. Among other things, these changes allow for the formation of the crucial mother-child bonding. And so if the little one is not petted and stroked, and thus does not undergo these physiological changes, the bonding will not occur.
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