While I was busy celebrating my birthday this past month, John Robbins quietly slipped away. And I am in gratitude, for his life. He was truly a leader, truly an entrepreneur. A man who beat to his own drum.
As I slowly return to a vegan lifestyle, knowing that it will benefit my health, I will tell you that his legacy that trickled down to his son Ocean, has meant the world to a lot of people, including me.
They founded The Food Revolution Network together. And that support for people with cancer that needed an answer, and those were just wanting to join a plant based lifestyle, I am sure saved and improved many lives.
Son Ocean Robbins steps into his fathers’ shoes
I watched his son go from a stumbling speaker into a confident leader as they grew this amazing plant based network. The kind of content they have offered to me personally over the last decade, has been invaluable.
Johns’ beginning days ….
John was born into the Baskin Robbins empire. In his 20s he got married move to a rustic island British Columbia and started with carpentry and vegetable gardening. They lived in a one room cabin a life of simplicity that encapsulated plant-based nutrition and daily meditation. That’s the foundation for the movement he and his son later created together.
John had a masters degree in Antioch college, wrote the book Diet for a New America, where he exposed the human
environmental and moral costs of factory farming. It’s sold millions. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
And what he did with that money is to cofound EarthSave in 1988. He created school programs, community dinners, youth outreach signaling that food was more than fuel. It was activism.
The Food Revolution Network has over 1 million members and I am one of them. In 2002 John sued the California Milk Advisory Board for misleading ads. In 2006 he printed Healthy at 100 on recycled paper, a publishing first, to show you that he talked the talk and walked the walk. He was an innovator.
The after affects of having had polio when he was five or PPS, was his final fight.
The facts of his life, through all my research, say he was married 58 years but I’m not clear if he is survived by his wife. If so my heart goes out to her and my love and gratitude goes out two their son, Ocean Robbins and The Food Revolution Network. For more direct contact, click here.
With garlic, gusto & gratitude,
Chef Marian🥂
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