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  • Published: 14 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529953992
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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Eat the Planet Well

A Guide to Healthy, Affordable, Ethical Eating




How to eat for the health of the planet and ourselves, from the Sunday Times bestselling author and scientist

Should we all be vegan? Is organic food worth the extra cost? Which foods have the fewest harmful pesticides, and the lowest environmental impact? What exactly is a healthy diet? Can we fix our broken food system?

Our food system has become toxic: toxic to us, and toxic to our planet. Industrial use of pesticides, vast monocrops, ultra-processed foods and unmitigated waste is built into a system that is destroying the environment and our health.

But there are solutions, and lots of them. While governments stall, we all need to take responsibility for what we consume. We all have a part to play in fixing our food system.

With insight and humour, Dave Goulson cuts through the information overload to examine the tricky questions we all face, and offers an optimistic vision of a better, more stable future.

  • Published: 14 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529953992
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
Categories:

About the author

Dave Goulson

Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex. He has published more than 300 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects. His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers The Garden Jungle and A Sting in the Tale, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize and has been translated into fifteen languages. He is an Ambassador for the UK Wildlife Trusts, the National Allotment Society and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

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Praise for Eat the Planet Well

We have been very slow to recognise that our food and our agricultural system lie at the heart of the many environmental challenges the world faces. In this compact and highly readable book, Dave Goulson says how we should change diets and our use of farming land in order to build a better, more resilient world while also improving human health. Full of well-researched information and divided into short chapters, this book is an excellent primer on topics that have been surprisingly poorly covered.

Chris Goodall, author of POSSIBLE: WAYS TO NET ZERO