The Food Revolution Quotes

“Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with compassion and awareness or whether you succumb to distractions and trivia. It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

“The day that hunger is eradicated from the Earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world on the day of that great revolution.” (Frederico Garcia Lorca)”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“Percentage of nutrients lost when whole wheat flour is refined into white flour:1 Of the 25 nutrients that are removed when whole wheat flour is milled into white flour, number of nutrients that are chemically replaced (enriched): 52 ________________”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“the spectacular results in reversing heart disease reliably obtained by cardiovascular patients on the high-carbohydrate near-vegan diet programs developed by Dean Ornish, M.D., Caldwell Esselstyn, M.D., John McDougall, M.D., and many others.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“Any harmful effect of high glycemic index carbohydrates is reduced by eating them together with low glycemic index foods”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“Never ask a barber whether you need a haircut.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“Things tend to turn out the best for those people who make the best of things, however they turn out.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“Despite (or maybe because of) such outstanding results, the Ornish program has been the subject of massive controversy. Some say his approach is too drastic, and we should stick to more medically conservative methods. Ornish's reply is simple and difficult to argue with: “I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it's medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“Billions and billions served’ means ‘billions and billions spent’—on doctor's visits and hospital bills.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“the chairman of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, was saying that his company was spending more money on insurance for its employees than it was spending on coffee.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“The) final product is no different than if you stuck it in the toilet and ate it.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“What kinds of crops are being grown? In 1999, the great majority (nearly 80 percent) of the total global transgenic acreage was planted in varieties of soy, corn, cotton, and canola that had been genetically altered by agrochemical companies to withstand massive dousings of their own commercial brands of herbicides.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“When diet and lifestyle—often the underlying causes of poor health—are adjusted, the body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, much more quickly than we had once thought possible.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“If a seven pound human baby grew at the same rate that today's turkeys (and broiler chickens) grow, when the baby reached 18 weeks of age it would weigh 1,500 pounds.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“We don't have to understand or agree with other people's decisions in order to respect and uphold the worthiness of their lives.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, the ICI spin-off that now exclusively funds and controls Breast Cancer Awareness Month, earns more than $300 million a year from the sale of a carcinogenic herbicide (acetochlor) while simultaneously marketing Tamoxifen, which has now become the world's bestselling cancer therapy drug.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition

“that meat production is the second or third largest contributor to environmental problems at every level and at every scale, from global to local. It is a primary culprit in land degradation, air pollution, water shortage, water pollution, species extinction, loss of biodiversity, and climate change.”
― John Robbins, The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 10th Anniversary Edition