Sustainable Food Production & Diet

Book Summary: 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, relieves world hunger, reduces animal cruelty, and lowers 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.

“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 University

Best-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