It is the 25th anniversary of the release of John Robbins’ international bestseller, “Diet for a New America,” the first book to draw a clear line connecting America’s factory farm system with disease, animal cruelty, and ecological crisis. VegWorld Magazine sat down with John to talk about his past, how the industry has changed, and why he gave up his fortune and the throne to the Baskin-Robbins enterprise.

John Robbins is the author of No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Food Revolution, and the co-founder and co-host of The Food Revolution Network, http://foodrevolution.org.

He is also author of the international bestseller DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth, THE FOOD REVOLUTION: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World,The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less, HEALTHY AT 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples, THE AWAKENED HEART: Meditations on Finding Harmony in a Changing World, and RECLAIMING OUR HEALTH: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing.

John Robbins is the co-founder and co-director of the Food Revolution Network, which now has 90,000 members. To learn more about John and Food Revolution Network, visit foodrevolution.org.