John Robbins (author)

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John Robbins (October 26, 1947 – June 11, 2025) was an American author, who popularized the links among nutrition, environmentalism and animal rights.<ref name = " "> Template:Cite news</ref>

Robbins was the author of the 1987 Diet for a New America, an exposé on connections between diet, physical health, animal cruelty, and environmentalism. Robbins founded the organization EarthSave in 1988 and co-founded the Food Revolution Network with his son, Ocean, in 2011. He was a leading voice in the plant-based movement.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Life and career

John Ernest Robbins was the son of Irma Robbins and Irv Robbins, co-founder and co-owner of Baskin-Robbins.<ref name="First obit" /><ref name = "PETA Obit"> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was of Jewish descent.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He had two sisters, Marsha and Erin. John graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969, and received a master's degree from Antioch College, in 1976. Rather than following the ice-cream parlor legacy of his father, he left the company to seek a simpler life. He and his wife Deo were married on March 10, 1967.<ref name="FoodRevolution">Template:Cite book</ref> Ocean Robbins, their son, is the founder of Food Revolution Network.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1987, Diet for a New America was published. In the book Robbins links the impacts of factory farming on human health, the environment, and animal welfare, to make a case for a plant-based diet. A year later he founded EarthSave. In 2001, Robbins updated and reiterated his advocacy of whole foods, plant-based diet for ethical, environmental and health reasons in the book The Food Revolution. The book includes information on organic food, genetically modified food, and factory farming.

He worked with PETA in 2002 to sue the California Milk Advisory Board over its 'happy cows' television advertisement.<ref name=LATimes /> The Milk Advisory Board won on a technicality.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

His 2006 book Healthy at 100, published by Random House, was printed on 100% post-consumer non-chlorine bleached paper, a first for a book from a major U.S. publisher.

Robbins was on the advisory board of Naked Food Magazine, for which he was a regular contributor of articles espousing a plant-based diet.

John Robbins' death was reported on the Food Revolution Network on June 13, 2025.<ref name="First obit"/> He died from complications of post-polio syndrome at his home, on June 11, at the age of 77.<ref name = "First obit" > {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="PETA Obit" /><ref name = "Death Press Release"> Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>John Robbins Obituary (1947 - 2025).</ref>

EarthSave

In 1988, Robbins founded EarthSave, an international, non-profit organization. The organization was born to channel the reader response to his Diet for a New America.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> EarthSave did outreach to the non-vegetarian public, with information tables and vegetarian social activities such as vegetarian Thanksgiving potlucks, and activism on vegetarian, animal, and food system issues.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

EarthSave sponsored a youth-outreach group, YES (Youth for Environmental Sanity), which toured the country visiting high schools and raising awareness of the EarthSave message.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

EarthSave continues to promote healthy, environmentally sound food choices. As of January 2022, its head office is in Chatsworth, California.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Earthsave Canada was established as a registered non-profit charity in British Columbia in March 1990.<ref name=EarthSaveCA />

Books

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