The Meaty Truth - Why Our Food Is Destroying Our Health and Environment— and Who Is Responsible - Shushana Castle, Amy-Lee Goodman (2014).epub

The Meaty Truth is an eye-opening look at the massive problems caused by the American population’s food supply. Water, meat, and milk and other dairy products are filled with toxins, antibiotics, untested growth hormones, ammonia, and animal pus and manure. The current conditions of the food production industry must drastically improve, and until they do, it is absolutely vital to monitor what you eat. Castle and Goodman take a hard-hitting look at what America is putting into its food, the negative effects this has on the world, and the best ways to make healthy, informed decisions about eating.

As the antibiotic age ends, the rise of pandemic diseases is approaching. Approximately half of the illnesses that claim American lives today are related to what we eat, and our health-care system is focused on treating the sick, not preventing illnesses from occurring. To fix our health problems, to continue feeding the world’s ever-growing population, and to save our planet from ecological destruction, we can no longer avoid making changes to how American meat and dairy are produced. This guide is easy to read, applicable to anyone’s lifestyle, and impossible to put down.

About the Author
Shushana Castle is the coauthor of Rethink Food: 100+ Doctors Can’t Be Wrong. She draws on her more than twenty-five years of working in the global financial markets to now raise and structure capital for the clean technology space, particularly the water sector. Shushana presides on numerous environmental boards including the Clinton Climate Initiative. She received her master’s degree in environmental management and water from Staffordshire University. Shushana lives in Houston, Texas, and Colorado.

Amy-Lee Goodman is the cofounder of the plant-based food company Zibble Inc., which is committed to providing delicious plant-based foods to frost a better future. She is coauthor of the recently released book Rethink Food: 100+ Doctors Can’t Be Wrong, and is the monthly wellness contributor to Vegan Lifestyle magazine. She graduated with honors from Wellesley College with a degree in political science. She lives in New York.

Dr. Neal Barnard is a clinical researcher, author, and one of America's leading advocates for health and nutrition. He is the founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and an adjunct associated professor of medicine at George Washington University. He lives in Washington, DC.