Six Arguments for a Greener Diet: How a Plant-based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment (repost)

This book is a publication of the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI’s) Eating Green project, which advocates a more plantbased diet to protect both health and the environment. Asher Wolf drafted the chapters on foodborne illness, soil, water, air, and animal welfare; Reed Mangels wrote the chapter on chronic disease; and Michael F. Jacobson wrote several other chapters and edited the entire manuscript. Michael Kisielewski contributed valuable editing and research; Moira Donahue, Judy Jacobs, Phyllis Machta, Tyler Martz, Jonathan Morgan, and Carol Touhey helped with proofreading and fact checking. Nita Congress provided invaluable advice while she edited and designed the book. CSPI’s Debra Brink designed the cover and several graphic displays. Numerous experts in government, academe, and nonprofit organizations generously provided data, advice, and reviews of entire chapters. Those people include Tamar Barlam, Aaron Blair, Navis Bermudez, Lawrence Cahoon, Winston Craig, Karen Florini, Tom Gegax, Noel Gollehon, Michael Greger, Robert Hadad, Ed Hopkins, Dennis Keeney, Ronald Lacewell, Alice Lichtenstein, Robbin Marks, Roy Moore, Mark Muller, Frensch Niegermeier, David Pimentel, Nancy Rabalais, Darryl Ray, Steven Roach, Bernard Rollin, Gail Rose, Joe Rudek, Daniel Rule, Frank Sacks, Jennifer Sass, Paul Shapiro, Parke Wilde, and George Wuerthner. In addition, CSPIreviewed chapters and offered much useful advice. Notwithstanding all that assistance, this book might still contain factual errors and inappropriate characterizations, for which the editor, Michael F. Jacobson, deserves the dubious credit. Finally, we are grateful to John Robbins for writing his ground-breaking Diet for a New America, which helped inspire our work. CSPI extends its sincere gratitude to the Freed Foundation, Tom and Mary Gegax, the Shared Earth Foundation, Lucy Waletzky, and the Wallace Genetic Foundation for their generous support of the Eating Green project and the preparation of this book.