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Meet Jo Robinson
Jo Robinson, an investigative journalist and New York
Times best-selling writer, is the author of the book, Pasture
Perfect, and the principal researcher and writer for the eatwild.com
web site. Jo has spent the last nine years researching the many benefits
of raising animals on pasture. Her interest grew out of a previous book, The
Omega Diet, co-authored with Dr. Artemis Simopoulos, that explores
the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. While researching the book,
Jo learned that meat from pasture-raised animals is very similar to meat
from wild game and that both promote optimal
health.
Starting with this insight, she began an exhaustive search
of the scientific literature from the 1960s to the present. To date, she has
identified hundreds of peer-reviewed studies showing that raising animals on
pasture is good for the animals, the environment, farm families, and the health
of consumers. She gives talks to ranchers, government agencies, sustainable
agricultural groups, and the general public around the country. Jo has been
interviewed by scores of journalists and reporters about the benefits of raising
animals on pasture.
Jo's book, When
Your Body Gets the Blues, extended her interest in natural health
to human psychology. Working with Dr. Marie-Annette Brown from the University
of Washington, she developed a clinically proven, all-natural program that
boosts women's mood and energy level and tames their appetite. (The book
was featured in an hour-long special on PBS throughout the summer of 2003.)
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Jo lives on Vashon Island in Washington State.
She is developing a test garden that features plants with exceptional
nutritional value that are similar to plants growing in the wild.
She is the author of Pasture Perfect and Why
Grassfed Is Best! and the co-author of Unplug the Christmas
Machine (with Jean Staeheli) Getting the Love You Want (with
Dr. Harville Hendrix), Hot Monogamy and Emotional Incest (with
Dr. Pat Love), The Omega Diet (with Dr. Artemis Simopoulos), and When
Your Body gets the Blues (with Dr. Marie-Annette Brown.)
Jo welcomes correspondence from the media. Media
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Jo's Talks & Presentations
Jo has not made any appearences for the past several
years because she has been working on a new book—due out in June 2013!
Following is a list of some past talks and presentations:
- "From Soil to Oil,"Politics
of Food Conference,North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North
Carolina, 2008
- "GRAZING AMERICA TEXAS, Building a Bridge Between the Farm and the
Table."
4th Annual American Grassfed Association Conference, Austin, Texas, November,
2007
- Municipal Arts Center, sponsored by Sustainable Table and the Glynwood
Center, New York City, 2006
- “Go Grass, the Hudson Valley’s Obvious—and Most Overlooked—Opportunity," sponsored
by the Glynwood Center. www.glynwood.org/,
Cold Spring, New York, 2006
- The University of Montana-Western's Fourth Annual Ag Conference and Expo,
2005
- The Stockman Grass Farmer’s Purple Cow West: A Marketing Conference
on Living
Rural While Selling Urban, Sacramento, CA, 2005.
- Northwest Highland Cattle Association Spring Meeting, Maple K Farms, Washington,
2005
- Why Grassfed is Best, Nanaimo Forage Seminar, keynote speaker, Canada,
2004
- Ranching in Nature’s Image, Plenary Session, Quivera Coalition,
New Mexico, 2004
- American Grassfed Association, Kansas, 2004
- Colorado Holistic Management, Colorado, 2004
- 25th Anniversary OEFFA Conference, Plenary Session, Ohio, 2004
- GrazeFest, Plenary Session, Alabama, 2004
- Fall Farm Workshop, keynote speaker, Stanwood, Washington, 2004
- The Missouri Forage and Grassland Council, 2004 Annual Conference, keynote
speaker, Missouri, 2004
- The Salmon Summit on Sustainable Fisheries. Bellingham, Washington, 2004
- The Quivira Coalition: Ranching at the Crossroads, New Mexico, Banquet
Speaker, 2003
- Farming for the Future, PASA, Pennsylvania, Plenary Session, 2003
- Stockman GrassFarmer’ Second Annual Conference, Georgia, 2001
- WSU Grassfarmer’s Cooperative, Spokane, WA, 2001
- Safe Farms, Safe Food, Safe Futures, New York, 2001
- Island Grown Farmers Cooperative, Washington, 2001
- Where’s the Grassfed Beef?, New York, 2001
- Nebraska Sustainable Agricultural Society, Nebraska, 2001
- Beyond Business as Usual, PASA, Pennsylvania, 2001
- Granger Field Day, Washington, Keynote Speaker, 2000
- 5th Annual Mealani Forage Field Day, Hawaii, Keynote Speaker, 2000
- Grasstravaganza 2000, New York, Keynote Speaker
- Association of Pastured Poultry Producers, New York, 2000
- The Stockman Grassfarmer Conference, Texas, Plenary Speaker, 1999
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