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.

Excellently researched

Love the narrator. The book goes into thorough detail while being very readable. Has changed my views on health, nutrition and farming for the better as it presents practical ways out of our health and climate crisis.

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 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.

Wake up!

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

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.

Should be read by everyone who eats food!

We have wanted to read this book ever since we knew it was being written, but we also knew we might not have the time to dedicate to sitting down to actually read it, so we downloaded the book. Unfortunately, we were very disappointed because the narrator's voice is so off-putting that we found ourselves turning it off because we are getting irritated by her voice. David Montgomery is a wonderful writer and person and it's a shame they couldn't have picked a better voice to read this book.

Good content, okay reader

I really liked the information that Mr. Montgomery presented in this book. Being an avid reader of this genre, I have read about a lot of the concepts previously from Montgomery's previous works, and those of others.

The female reader's pace was a bit slow for me, and some of her pronouncing was off. Regardless, I enjoyed the overall content.

Thank you, Mr. Montgomery, for helping to raise the awareness of our need to change our agricultural practices for the good of all.

great read

full of great info and good statistics. I really love the connections and depth of this book.

Research to help you understand that you truly are what you eat.

While parts of this book reads like a college chemistry text there is so much information I want to sit and study over and over again. Gardening in Texas is such a challenge compared to the Midwest where I grew up. I am continually adding soil amendments and organically working to improve my garden beds. I wish we could all have access to the detailed micro- organism analysis of our soil as was discussed in the book. If you are happy living on a diet of junk food and you don’t think it affects your health this isn’t the book for you. If you are striving to eat more nutritiously, trying to source food from like minded growers/suppliers, and maybe trying to grow some of your own food, you can learn so much to support your efforts from the detailed information in this book. This is a book to be studied. I did enjoy the Audible version of the book but I can’t wait to get my copy of the book to add to my gardening reference collection.