What Your Food Ate

How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

By: David R. Montgomery, Anne Biklé

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Are you really what you eat?

David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate marshals evidence from recent and forgotten science to illustrate how the health of the soil ripples through to that of crops, livestock, and ultimately us.

The long-running partnerships through which crops and soil life nourish one another suffuse plant and animal foods in the human diet with an array of compounds and nutrients our bodies need to protect us from pathogens and chronic ailments. Unfortunately, conventional agricultural practices unravel these vital partnerships and thereby undercut our well-being. Can farmers and ranchers produce enough nutrient-dense food to feed us all? Can we have quality and quantity?

With their trademark thoroughness and knack for integrating information across numerous scientific fields, Montgomery and Bikle chart the way forward. Navigating discoveries and epiphanies about the world beneath our feet, they reveal why regenerative farming practices hold the key to healing sick soil and untapped potential for improving human health.

©2022 David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Perhaps a bit of preaching to the choir

This is an excellent book, with lots and lots of support for the claims made. So much support, that after days of listening on my commute to work, I would think, "yes, I know, I know, you've been talking at me for weeks about this now..." I know that's not really a helpful review for a book with so much important information.

The performance is problematic for me. The narrator reads with really great flow and personality, but it is slow and with too much of what I would call mouth noise. I found both the speed and mouth noise problems mostly solved when upping the speed to 1.15x.

Wake up!

This book and information should be a wake up call to every citizen and government official!

A must read!

It there is one book that encompasses all of the knowledge from soil to plate this is the book. This takes the place of reading twenty books on these topics. I am a book person and if you have an interest in this subject this book is unbeatable on the subject.

A significant and fundamental piece for our future

Simply put, this book is mainly for the top decision makers in our world. The future could depend on their understanding of the message brilliantly conveyed in this book.

A lot of words and ways to make a point

I liked the connections and explanations of soil health linking to nutrition and I’ve changed some eating habits as a result. The narrator was exceptionally dull. I sped it up to get through it.