As a vegan I beleive John robbins is rather unscientific in his health claims. Many of his claims about vegetarianism and heart disease, osteoporosis and cancer are not founded. I will go into this in more detail when I have the time! Blake ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jo Yoshida" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:12 AM Subject: Diet For a New America > Recently I gave away my copy of John Robbin's Diet For A New America. > I recall reading somewhere, maybe it was at the BeyondVeg site, that > the author's contentions about the economical or ecological > ramifications of a meat-eating diet were based on misinterpreted data > (or something to that effect). Does anyone know what these > questionable arguments were or links to reviews that might highlight > these issues? THX, Jo > -- >