Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work Hardcover – November 19, 2013

Highly pertinent information regarding the food system’s impact on the global environment.

Comfortably Unaware was also a well researched and eye opening book, but Food Choice and Sustainability is the book Al Gore should have written. Dr. Oppenlander goes into the consequences of our food choices even deeper. He puts holes in the many myths permeating our media about how we should view our food choices and global warming, land use, water use, energy use, air pollution, etc. Once you read this book, you will immediately understand how and why the general public are misled. He shows that the science does not back up the baseless rhetoric of people like Michael Pollan who claims that grass fed cows are sustainable. I am not finished yet but cannot wait to finish it. My husband could not put it down and bought a pile to give to all our family members and friends. Richard uses scientific studies to back his statements and, in addition, he travels all over the world to observe just how food choice and sustainability play out in real life. Thank you Dr. Oppenlander for dispelling the myths we are fed but those who choose greed over health and environment. Excellent and impeccable work!

Please read this book, this simple to read and easy to understand explanation of how our food choices are the number one cause of climate change, water shortages, deforestation, destruction of the ocean, overuse of our land and destruction of our health is the most important and powerful book ever written on the subject matter. Every person on the planet should be required to read this so they fully understand how every bite of food they take reverberates around the world. In other words the food choices you make dramatically impact what happens to our forests, oceans, fresh drinking water, food supply, climate change. Before you read any other book read this one. It's hard to believe that this information is not available to every person when they grow up. This is the number one book I have ever read, more important than any other book I have ever read on the environment or health. This book is purely scientific but very easy to read. There's actually no bias in this book except the desire to save the planet.

This book is very informative and has provided helpful insights into the field. A great read if you are looking to expand your knowledge of agricultural impacts.I think the book could have been strengthened through empowering the reader and other environmental advocates. I disagree with the author that "...the public is generally apathetic and misguided". From my experience, people are unaware of agricultural impacts, but many are open to change upon receiving education (perhaps Dr. Oppenlander has changed his views on this over time though). From a psychological standpoint, readers are also more likely to propagate change if they feel empowered to do so, instead of feeling helpless and berated.I also think that the book is overly harsh on environmental/climate activists like Bill McKibben and Al Gore. The book alludes that these activists have been a disservice to the climate movement by their "conspicuous oversight" of the impact of animal agriculture on the environment. In reality, I think that they were not aware of the impacts (just as I was not, until a few years ago). People are capable of learning and changing. Al Gore demonstrates this, as he went vegan in 2013 [...].All in all, awesome book. I hope the next brings greater positivity to the table to further amplify the impact. :)

My Dream - All Policy Makers, Spiritual Leaders, and Educators read this book. Our world community desperately needs to experience a massive and rapid paradigm shift with regards to food production and consumption. This book could be a catalyst for such a shift if it is read and its message carried far and wide by those in positions to initiate genuine change. There lies one of the great challenges, as Dr. Oppenlander points out, Educating The Educated. I will share this book and its message, as well as Comfortably Unaware and all of Dr. Oppenlander's Youtube appearances, with as many as I am able for as long as I am able.

If you are not yet aware, this book is essentially saying that unless you become a vegan you are in denial about the dire situation on the planet. The information in this book is solid in research and compassionate in viewpoint. I do think it is worth reading. However, beware that the tone is incredibly self-righteous. I wish I felt the author’s love of the planet more than his dogmatic assurance that he “knows” he has the ultimate correct view. I really had to separate the aggression of tone from the actual meaningful information presented.

Very in depth with a lot of research to back up every point. Please read, it will change your perspective on the planet and what we are doing. I have read a lot of books on the subject and I keep coming back to this one as the clearest, most in depth book.

I am so aware of what this book is warning the world about. What is up with todays society? I am old enough to think I may still have a relatively good life. But, my kids are in for some serious life decisions if major changes in the planets ecosystems aren't saved. Dr. Oppenlander tells it like it is, because there is no nice way to say how wrong we are treating our poor planet. We are literally cutting our own throats if things stay the way they are. BIOCENTRIC EQUALITY PEOPLE!!!