Kristin Lawless

FOOD REVOLUTION

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Chuck D of the seminal hip hop group Public Enemy wrote a song called "Food As A Machine Gun" inspired by my book.

The full interview is available here.

Formerly Known as Food

If you think buying organic is protecting you, you're wrong. Our food―even what we're told is good for us―has changed for the worse in the past 100 years, its nutritional content deteriorating due to industrial farming and its composition altered due to the addition of thousands of chemicals from pesticides to packaging. We simply no longer know what we’re eating.

In Formerly Known as Food, Kristin Lawless argues that, because of the degradation of our diet, our bodies are literally changing from the inside out. The billion-dollar food industry is reshaping our food preferences, altering our brains, changing the composition of our microbiota, and even affecting the expression of our genes. Lawless chronicles how this is happening and what it means for our bodies, health, and survival.

An independent journalist and nutrition expert, Lawless is emerging as the voice of a new generation of food thinkers. After years of "eat this, not that" advice from doctors, journalists, and food faddists, she offers something completely different. Lawless presents a comprehensive explanation of the problem―going beyond nutrition to issues of food choice, class, race, and gender―and provides a sound and simple philosophy of eating, which she calls "The Whole Egg Theory."


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Can I Eat This?

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ABOUT KRISTIN

KRISTIN LAWLESS is the author of Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture, which won the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature in 2019. Her journalism and columns have appeared in The New York TimesThe AtlanticNewsweek, and VICE. Lawless is also a Certified Nutrition Educator and lives with her husband and son in California. 

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and Expectant Parents


Can I eat this? Ask Kristin on Instagram!

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