Healthy Eating, Healthy World

Mike Chamberlain's easygoing voice softens the startle factor of this polemical lesson on the real costs of eating meat and processed foods. With effortless-sounding phrasing and a vocal quality that is at once innocent and determined, he explains how a plant-based diet can help us feel better and avoid many common ailments. Compared to plants, animal production requires an outrageous amount of resources and, in this country, takes place in factories that are cruel and polluting. Plants have more protein than we think, more of the nutrients our bodies need to thrive, and fewer of the harmful substances that cause disease and early aging. The dietary recommendations are radical, but they sound inviting because the supporting information is thorough, the authors are anything but doctrinaire, and the graceful Chamberlain sells them with such openness. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine