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Eat the Planet Well
  • Published: 19 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781787335639
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $36.99
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Eat the Planet Well

How to fix our toxic food system – one meal at a time

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Tr. Paperback
19 May 2026
EBook
14 May 2026
Audiobook
14 May 2026
Hardback
14 June 2026
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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: 19 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781787335639
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $36.99
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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Also by Dave Goulson

Silent Earth
Gardening for Bumblebees
The Garden Jungle
Bee Quest
A Buzz in the Meadow
A Sting in the Tale
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Praise for Eat the Planet Well

In this compact and highly readable book, Dave Goulson shows us 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... An excellent primer on topics that have been surprisingly poorly covered.

Chris Goodall

Everyone needs to read this book. Brilliantly explained, scientifically driven and yet pragmatic and personal – this is about the choices we need to make now, and every day, to secure the future we want for our children.

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