约翰•罗宾斯（John Robbins）

著名的环境保护人士，本世纪最有影响力的健康饮食作家。

他原是美国“三一”冰淇淋公司的继承人，长大后却抛弃荣华富贵，与妻子在西雅图附近的小岛过了7年回归自然的简朴生活。后来，他发现只要改变饮食习惯，就能对自己的健康以及地球的环境和生命产生深远的影响，于是经过三年实地调查，写下了《新世纪饮食》。此书一出，动摇了美国多年来的饮食习惯。之后，罗宾斯在世界各地演讲上千次；也曾接受联合国的邀请演讲；将书的内容制成录像带广为发行；还创立非营利组织“拯救地球基金会”。曾获得1987年的普利策奖提名，以及 1994年的“雷切尔•卡逊”奖。

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America , beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is a startling examination of the food we currently buy and eat in the United States, and the astounding moral, economic, and emotional price we pay for it. In Section I, John Robbins takes an extraordinary look at our dependence on animals for food and the inhumane conditions under which these animals are raised. It becomes clear that the price we pay for our eating habits is measured in the suffering of animals, a suffering so extreme and needless that it disrupts our very place in the web of life. Section II challenges the belief that consuming meat is a requirement for health by pointing our the vastly increased rate of disease caused by pesticides, hormones, additives, and other chemicals now a routine part of our food production. The author shows us that the high health risk is unnecessary, and that the production, preparation, and consumption of food can once again be a healthy process. In Section III, Robbins looks at the global implications of a meat-based diet and concludes that the consumption of the resources necessary to produce meat is a major factor in our ecological crisis. Diet for a New America is the single most eloquent argument for a vegetarian lifestyle ever published. Eloquently, evocatively, and entertainingly written, it is a cant put down book guaranteed to amaze, infuriate, but ultimately educate and empower the reader. A pivotal book nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1987.: