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John Robbins is an American author known for his books on food and health. He is the son of Baskin-Robbins co-founder Irv Robbins. Rather than following the ice-cream parlour legacy of his father, John Robbins turned down his vast inheritance to seek a life he found more rewarding.[1] In 1987, he published Diet for a New America, an exposé on the connections between diet, physical health, animal cruelty, and environmentalism. In 2001, he published The Food Revolution, an updated version. It includes information on organic food, genetically modified food, and factory farming. Using history, anecdotes, and extensive citations from peer-reviewed research, Robbins advocates a healthy plant-based diet for personal and environmental health. An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... External links Baskin-Robbins official site. ... Irv Robbins (born 1918) was the founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain with his partner Burt Baskin. ... Diet for a New America is a book by John Robbins, advocating a plant-based, Vegan diet. ... An organically-grown apple. ... A genetically modified food is a food product developed from a different genetically modified organism (GMO) such as a crop plant, animal or microorganisms, such as yeast. ... Beef cattle on a feedlot in the Texas Panhandle Factory farming is a term used to describe a set of controversial practices in large-scale, intensive agriculture. ... Plant-based diets are diets that are primarily based on plant foods and include very little or no meat. ...


The documentary film Supersize Me by Morgan Spurlock has a short interview with Robbins. Super Size Me movie poster Super Size Me is a 2004 documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an independent U.S. filmmaker. ... Morgan Spurlock, in a promotional picture for Super Size Me Morgan Spurlock (born November 7, 1970) is an American independent film director, and screenwriter, known for the documentary film Super Size Me, in which he attempted to demonstrate the negative health effects of McDonalds food. ...


Bibliography

  • Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth, 1987
  • 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

1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

  1. ^ Robbins, John (2001). The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World. Conari Press. ISBN 1573247022.

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While the book is well written and documented, perhaps its impact is largely due to the fact that Robbins, the only son of Irving Robbins, a founder and chief executive of the Baskin and Robbins ice cream empire, rejected a life of wealth and comfort in order to follow "his higher dream".
Robbins then openly informed the caller that he didn't even like the show and that he disagreed with everything it stood for.
Robbins' interesting approach is that of course they are going to feel this way.
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John Robbins, who stood to inherit Baskin-Robbins, the largest ice cream company in the world, said no. After looking closely at the factory farms of the dairy industry, and studying the health implications of the products the company was selling, he concluded that he had to remain true to his conscience.
Robbins is the author of widely-acclaimed book Diet For a New America (Stillpoint), in which he deftly blends fact and passion in an attempt to awaken us to the consequences of our dietary decisions.
Robbins is the President of the EarthSave Foundation, dedicated to the welfare of all species and the environment.
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