Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It

Anna Lappe

Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Apr 4, 2011 - Technology & Engineering - 323 pages

Nearly four decades after her mother, Frances Moore Lapp , published Diet for a Small Planet, sparking a revolution in our thinking about the social and environmental impact of our food choices, Anna Lapp picks up the conversation, examining another hidden cost of our food system: the climate crisis. From raising cattle in industrial-scale feedlots to razing rainforests to make palm oil for Pop-Tarts, the choices we make about how we put food on our plates, and what we do with the waste, contribute to as much as one third of total greenhouse-gas emissions. Lapp exposes the interests resisting this crucial conversation while she educates and empowers readers and eaters committed to healing the planet.
Praise for Diet for a Hot Planet:
"[An] important book ... When it comes to climate change, junk food may prove even more destructive than SUVs. Lapp 's message is timely and empowering."-Eric Schlosser, author of FastFood Nation
"Accessibly written, rationally argued and focused on action over rhetoric, the book will interest parents, foodies, economists, committed vegetarians, moral omnivores, environmentalists, health enthusiasts and anyone interested in actually doing something about climate change while government responses stagnate. An essential toolkit for readers looking for a pragmatic climate-response action plan of their own."-Kirkus Reviews

Contents

• CRISIS: 3
• The Shape of Things to Come: 42
• Blinded by the Bite: 59
• Playing with Our Food: 85
• Capitalizing on Climate Change: 115
• Five Ingredients of Climate Friendly Farming: 129
• Answering the Critics: 151
• The Hunger Scare: 165
• The Biotech Ballyhoo: 174
• Seven Principles of a ClimateFriendly Diet 20020: 201
• Beyond the Fork: 230
• Conclusion: 249
• Acknowledgments: 257
• Selected Bibliography: 289
• Index: 303

About the author

Anna Lapp is the co-author of Grubb and Hope's Edge (with her mother, Frances Moore Lapp ). She is currently host for MSN's Practical Guide to Healthy Living and is co-host for the public television series, The Endless Feast. Named one of Time magazine's "Eco-Who's Who," she is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute. Anna's writing has been published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, and Canada's Globe and Mail. She writes a bi-monthly column on sustainability for Spirituality and Health and contributes book reviews to the San Francisco Chronicle and the New Scientist. Her Web site is www.takeabite.cc.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It
• Author: Anna Lappe
• Contributor: Bill McKibben
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011
• ISBN: 1608194655, 9781608194650
• Length: 323 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / General; Health & Fitness / General; Health & Fitness / Healthy Living & Personal Hygiene; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Nature / General; Science / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology; Technology & Engineering / Food Science / General