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Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition) |  | Author: Frances Moore Lappe
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 81540
Format: Deluxe Edition
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 20 Anv
Pages: 528
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.1 x 1
ISBN: 0345321200
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.563
EAN: 9780345321206
ASIN: 0345321200
Publication Date: May 12, 1985
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Here again is the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating-- one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the 90s. Featuring: simple rules for a healthy diet; a streamlined, easy-to-use format; delicious food combinations of protein-rich meals without meat; hundreds of wonderful recipes, and much more.
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 Diet for a Small Planet February 19, 2010
Richard Pendarvis
This book gives a lot of the why for becoming a vegetarian but the how is more valuable even if it is more subtle. The section on protein complementarity is valuable in that it is useful for those without scientific backgrounds.
Diet for a Small Planet February 7, 2010
Victoria M. Robertson
The book was written far ahead of its time. It gives very detailed information about healthy vegetarian diet and provides a few great recipes. Very easy, pleasant, informative reading.
Extraordinary Value, Genius in a Small Package December 15, 2009
Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
March 18, 2007 is when I bought this book here at Amazon, and I would have reviewed it within the week. Amazon appears to have destroyed my original review, one more in a long line of erros by Amazon that finally forced me to mirror all of my reviews at Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog. Amazon has BLOWN IT in terms of really being useful to the Earth, while I was invited to speak to their Developer's Conference 2007, and had a standing room only audience, Jeff Bezos is a geek, not a thinker, and could never wrap his mind around a World Brain as digital contents remixable at the paragraph level.
This particular book was my introduction to Francis Lappe Moore, and along with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Barbara Ehrenreich, whose books I link to below, I consider her one of the most sensible, intelligent, good-hearted citizen leaders in America, and certainly equal to many non-American emergent leaders I do not know.
The growth of livestock on land (and also in the sea) is poisoning the earth and accelerating the migration of animal diseases to humans. There is now evidence that Alzheimer's Disease is in fact Mad Cow disease badly diagnosed all these years.
I strongly recommend this book for a simple grounding in basic Earth common-sense, and as a gift to others. This is a timeless work.
Other books to consider:
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds--Be Part of the Global Warming Solution!
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Conscious Evolution: Awakening Our Social Potential
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
More than I expected... November 10, 2009
P.M. (Florida)
I kind of expected more recipes and less info, but I'm glad I bought this. There is a lot of info for us beginner vegetarians regarding what foods to eat to get all the protein we need. I use this mostly as a reference when I have a question about my diet or about the weird foods I buy now. There are some pretty good recipes as well.
Exposing the meat industry myths October 6, 2009
Edouard M. Ponist (East Lansing MI)
Frances Moore Lappe exposes the meat industry myths in this timeless book.
I wish I had read this book when it first came out. My wife and I quit eating beef, pork and chicken months ago and we discovered this book afterwards. The information relating to grains and beans combined makes perfect sense relating to maintaining an adquate daily protein intake.
Diet for a Small Planet exposes the myths the meat industry has used to brainwash the American population in thinking that only meat can supply an adquate protein source. Furthermore, the book exposes the immense waste of land and pollution produced through the raising of cattle, swine and chickens. As more land is tied up for livestock feed, more people world wide (including the US) go hungry as the meat industry becomes wealthy from a product which is unnecessary and unhealthy.
5 stars for an old book which has good wisdom.
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