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The Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world by
John Robbins and Dean Ornish, Conari Press, $17.95, ISBN 1573247022

JOHN ROBBINS, an heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice-cream fortune, turned his
back on the frozen milk-fat industry. In 1987 he wrote Diet for a New America,
an influential book that took the meat and dairy industries to task and promoted
vegetarianism as an ethical, healthful and environmental practice.

Now he’s back, beating the same drum in The Food Revolution. You won’t read
much here that you haven’t already heard. Robbins argues that the modern meat…

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