This is the book that started it all for me. We just really don’t think enough the food we eat, or the effect it has on both our bodies and the world. Did you know that if you go meatless just one day a week, the United States would save:
“100 billion gallons of water, enough for all New England homes for four months; 1.5 billion pounds of crops that would otherwise be fed to livestock; 70 million gallons of gas; 3 million acres of land.
If each of us ate a vegetarian diet for one day, the US would prevent: more than 1 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions; 3 million tons of soil erosion, 4.5 million tons of animal waste and 7 million tons of ammonia emissions.
If each of us replaced one meal of chicken per week with a vegetarian meal, the impact would be the equivalent of removing more than 500,000 cars off the US roads. Some environmentalists believe that becoming vegetarian is perhaps the single most effective choice we can make in re-creating our world in favor of justice, sustainability and balance.” source
“A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winning author Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us— whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.”