Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!

In this follow-up to 2010's The Food Revolution, activist John Robbins teams with his son and fellow activist Ocean to further the conversation about food, health, and the environment. They present interviews with 21 "food revolutionaries," including scientists, doctors, teachers, farmers, economists, activists, and nutritionists. While the book is very much a call to action, it opens on an optimistic note. "Those days may be numbered," Ocean Robbins writes in the introduction, referencing the various problems caused by the industrial food system. He cites the work of activists such as his father, Bill McKibben, Frances Moore Lappé, and others (many included in this book) as his reason to hope for substantial progress in what he believes is the right direction: a plant-based diet produced and consumed outside of an industrialized system. The book is divided into seven topical sections, each of which includes conversations among John Robbins and activists, brief next steps for those who want to make a difference, and a list of resources. One section features a discussion of spirituality that closes with a prayer offered by author Marianne Williamson.