Henry Dimbleby's Sunday Times bestselling manifesto on how to change the food system

WINNER OF THE ANDRÉ SIMON FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS 2024 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Brilliant - a must read' Tim Spector 'Ravenous is a truly important book ... we need a food revolution to ensure children don't go hungry, eat right, and reach their potential' Tom Kerridge The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance. It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth. It sustains us, but it is also killing us. Diet-related disease is now the biggest cause of preventable illness and death in the developed world - far worse than smoking. The environmental damage done by the food system is also changing climate patterns and degrading the earth, risking our food security. In Ravenous, Henry Dimbleby takes us behind the scenes to reveal the mechanisms that act together to shape the modern diet - and therefore the world. He explains not just why the food system is leading us into disaster, but what can be done about it.

"Shocking ... a highly readable account of what needs to be happen in order for us to both save the planet and fit into those old jeans again ... Dimbleby promises to show us how the crisis can be averted. [Ravenous] delivers on that promise" - Guardian

"Compelling reading" - Waitrose Weekend

"A call not only for a healthier food system, but for a more sustainable one" - The Times

"Fascinating . . .comprehensive and concise . . . a clear, reasoned and meticulously footnoted argument for a coherent food policy" - FT

"A rallying call for radical change" - TLS

"Excellent" - Perspective

"[Ravenous] sets out how we can escape from the system we're trapped within which means that currently 60 per cent of adults in the UK are obese, with the number estimated to rise to 80 per cent by 2060." - i Paper

"Gripping ... the scope of [Ravenous] is huge - climate change, the health crisis our diet has created, environmental damage wrought by intensive agriculture, damage done to the land, to rivers and to biodiversity ... accessible, fascinating, grim but not entirely without hope" - The Times

"Dimbleby is absolutely spitting feathers at the government's failure to confront the realities of our food system" - Spectator

"Sobering ... forceful ... with his experience as a food-system insider, Dimbleby is able to take us behind the scenes and show us how the mechanisms stretching across the vast supply chains of the food system act together to make us eat what we eat" - Literary Review

"Food may well be one of the fundamental necessities of life, but our relationship with it is threatening not just our own lives but that of the planet. Fortunately, Henry Dimbleby knows how to get us back in shape" - Men's Health

"A brilliant, rigorous, masterful work, that opens our minds to some of the most important of all issues" - Regenesis

"A critical investigation into the global food industry" - Farmer's Guardian

"Henry Dimbleby's latest book must be one of the most exhaustively researched works of all time - certainly when it comes to the food industry." - The Grocer

"The complex truth behind the global food system" - Living North

"Henry Dimbleby calls for a rethink about how food is produced and consumed for the benefit of our health and the planet" - Waitrose Weekend

"Emerging from Dimbleby's work on food supply chains during the pandemic, Ravenous explores the structures of the global food system and how environmental, health and nutritional concerns can harmoniously coexist" - Financial Times

"The author of the National Food Strategy and founder of Leon reveals the eye-opening truth about how our food systems shape the modern diet and the planet - and, crucially, what we can do about it" - i Paper

"Ravenous is a fast-paced, well-evidenced call for a healthier, more sustainable food system" - Guardian

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"From field to fork, extraordinary work is being done to try and build a better food system for everyone ... [including] Henry Dimbleby's ambitions for safe, healthy and affordable food" - Today

"Analytically tight, empirically thorough ... [Dimbleby's] recommendations are detailed, convincing, and would be entirely implementable if we cared about ourselves and the world around us" - The Economics of Biodiversity