John Robbins (author)

This article is about the author and plant-based diet advocate. For other uses, see John Robbins (disambiguation).

"Diet for a New America" redirects here. For the musical recording, see Diet for a New America (album).

John Robbins
Born	26 October 1947 (1947-10-26) (age 64) United States
Residence	Santa Cruz, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Occupation	Author
Spouse	Deo (wife)
Children	Ocean (son)
Awards	Rachel Carson Award, Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award
Website
http://www.johnrobbins.info/

John Robbins (born October 26, 1947) is an American author, who popularized the links among nutrition, environmentalism, and animal rights.^[1] He is the author of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize-nominated^[2] Diet for a New America, an exposé on connections between diet, physical health, animal cruelty, and environmentalism.

Robbins 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.^[3] Robbins advocates a plant-based diet for personal and environmental health. 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.

Robbins has received the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, and the Peace Abbey’s Courage of Conscience Award.^{[citation needed]}

In Diet for a New America, he 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 Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock has a short interview with Robbins.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.

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.
• The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less, 2010, Ballantine Books, 304 pages (ISBN 978-0345519849).

See also

• Michael Klaper
• Vegan nutrition
• Veganism
• Vegetarianism
• Environmental vegetarianism

References

1. ^ Burros, Marian (December 2, 1992). "Eating Well [Biography]", The New York Times, p. C4. Retrieved May 27, 2010.
2. ^ Jervis, Rick (19 April 1993), "Pulitzer nominee says meatless diet healthier for people and Earth", Gainesville Sun, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19930419&id=3eQRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=X-oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6714,6132055 
3. ^ Robbins, John (2001). The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World. Conari Press. ISBN 1-57324-702-2. 
4. ^ Responses to Healthy at 100 - Healthy at 100 ::: by John Robbins
5. ^ EarthSave International

External links

• About John Robbins profile from his Healthy at 100 website
• Interview with John, Deo, and Ocean Robbins, interviewed by Morissa Lou Williams
• Living Better in An Age of Less, interviewed by Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

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