No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution

John Robbins

Red Wheel Weiser, Apr 1, 2012 - Social Science - 208 pages

Internationally known vegan and bestselling author John Robbins has continued his observations and investigations into food politics and food-related issues of the day in his popular HuffingtonPost column, foodrevolution.org.

No Happy Cows collects these recent observations along with never before published material for the first time in book form. Robbins shares his dispatches from the frontlines of the food revolution: From his undercover investigations of feed lots and slaughterhouses, to the rise of food contamination, the slave trade behind chocolate and coffee, what he calls the sham of “Vitamin Water,” and the effects of hormones on animals and animal products.

Topics include:The skinny on grassfed beefGreed and salmonellaJunk food marketing to kidsSoy and Alzheimer’sHormones in our milkPlus many more.

Robbin’s trenchant and provocative observations into the relationships between animals and the humans who raise them remind us of the importance of working for a more compassionate and environmentally responsible world.

About the author

John Robbins is the author of the bestselling The Food Revolution, Diet for a New America, and No Happy Cows. His life and work have been featured on PBS. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Visit them at www.foodrevolution.org.

Bibliographic information

• Title: No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution
• Author: John Robbins
• Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser, 2012
• ISBN: 1609255798, 9781609255794
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition; Social Science / Agriculture & Food; Social Science / Disease & Health Issues