Key Takeaways:

• Critiques industrial meat and dairy production for its impacts on human health, animal welfare, and ecological sustainability, weaving in Robbins’s break from the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire.
• Combines investigative journalism with emotional storytelling to show the hidden costs of everyday burgers, ice cream, and cheese.
• Presents a plant-based diet as simultaneously healthier, more compassionate, and more aligned with planetary limits.
• Became a foundational text for late-20th-century vegan, animal-rights, and environmental food movements, inspiring countless diet conversions.