No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution - John Robbins

Robbins, John: - John Robbins is the bestselling author of Voices of the Food Revolution , No Happy Cows , Diet for a New America , and many other landmark works. He is the founder of EarthSave International and the co-founder and co-host of the 100,000+ member Food Revolution Network, http: //foodrevolution.org. Robbins' work has been the subject of cover stories and feature articles in The San Francisco Chronicle , The Los Angeles Times , Chicago Life , The Washington Post , The New York Times , The Philadelphia Inquirer , and many of the nation's other major newspapers and magazines. His life and work have also been featured in an hour-long PBS special titled Diet For A New America. The only son of the founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, Robbins was groomed to follow in his father's footsteps, but chose to walk away from Baskin-Robbins and the immense wealth it represented to ...pursue the deeper American Dream...the dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms. A dream of a society that is truly healthy, practicing a wise and compassionate stewardship of a balanced ecosystem. He lives with his family in the Santa Cruz Mountains.