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Modern food systems cause extensive chronic disease, environmental degradation, global hunger, animal cruelty, and severe pandemic risks. Switching to whole plant food diets usually is the single most powerful action people can take to address these problems. It extends lives, improves health, reduces weight, protects the environment, and helps to relieve world hunger, reduce animal cruelty, and lower pandemic risks. Using practical, easy-to-understand language, this book illuminates how to transform the food sector, overcome food addiction, and adopt healthier diets and lifestyles. Food production and diet are among the most critical issues in human society. Flawed ideas and systems discussed throughout this book drive major problems in the food area. For example, the failure to think systemically causes many people to focus on the benefits of our food production systems without seeing the vast negative environmental and human health impacts. The inappropriate business influence of government frequently prevents the government from protecting public health and the environment in the food area. And the systemically-mandated requirement to place shareholder returns before all else drives major environmental and human health problems related to food.

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Frank Dixon, an accomplished writer on these topics, not only provides substantive evidence that needs widespread attention. He also describes the linkages between food, climate change and other societal challenges within a whole system perspective that, sadly, is too often missing. -T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell UniversityBest-selling author of The China Study (2005, 2016), Whole (2013), and The Future of Nutrition (2020) Frank Dixon has produced a monumentally sobering look at a modern food system that has done more to make people unwell than all the classic plagues of the ages... The future will require us to live differently, and Mr. Dixon's book is an excellent roadmap for that journey. -James Howard Kunstler, Author of The Long Emergency and the World Made by Hand novels Frank has a rare combination of being a detective, (like Michael Connolly), a magician and a wise sage, lifting the lid on the topic of Food, dispelling some of its mysteries and myths, revealing fascinating and enlightening truths. I changed my diet after reading the Food book, giving up eating meat which led to a better diet, enhancing good health. Do step into this fabulous book and improve the health of yourself and your family! -Ros Morley, B.A.Hons. Fine Art, MA Printmaking Everyone can benefit from reading Sustainable Food Production and Diet. Frank's food book has been life-changing for me. His extensive research into industrial agriculture has sensitized me to the cruelty animals endure, what is in the food I eat and how it gets from the field and farm to my table. Since reading this book, I have strived to eat more of a whole plant food diet and encourage others to do so. I now understand the extent to which it can help us improve our health, protect from chronic diseases, improve the environment and benefit all creatures on earth. Although the content is at times upsetting, Frank remains optimistic. In addition, he helps us see the absurdities of our current systems with his great sense of humor throughout the book. It energizes you immediately to take action by simply making changes in the food you eat and becoming part of the solution! - Carol Anne Cushing, Executive RecruiterApproximately 50 years ago, human civilization began to overstep earth's biological carrying capacity. Since then we have entered a period of accelerating ecosystem degradation and climate change, whose costs today overwhelm our economies and threaten our public health. One of the most overlooked elements of this threshold period is the destruction created by our industrial food systems, which have disrupted the capacities of the earth's arable land and seas to feed us. Frank Dixon walks us through this dilemma with devastating insight and clarity. In so doing, he presents us with two fundamental options: either continue with business as usual (an ego-centric lose-lose proposition) or work in harmony with life and each other in sustaining our shared resources (the eco-centric win-win alternative). Jay Bragdon, Author of Economies That Mimic Life, Director, Academy for Systems Change

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