Plant Great

Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy—or eliminate them from our diets altogether. But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet is misleading—or even false? What if removing animal foods from our diet is a serious threat to human health, and a red herring in the fight against climate change.

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers, trees, and fruits (and even a few fungi).

¿Estás cansado de recurrir a medicamentos tóxicos que pueden ser perjudicial para tu salud? Hoy en día la mayoría de las personas dependen de la medicina convencional para curarse, centrándose más en tratar los síntomas y menos en solucionar la causa raíz del problema. Pero sabes que existe una alternativa más eficaz y natural sin necesidad de recurrir a medicamentos químicos que puedan tener un efecto secundario.