Jonathan SpitzJonathan Spitz is an environmental and animal rights activist. In 1990, after reading Diet for a New America by John Robbins, he realized that humans lacked the anatomy or physiology of apex predators and our true role in a sustainable ecosystem is a a plant-eating species. With this new understanding of the human place on the food chain, at the age of thirty-seven he adopted a plant-based vegan diet and began defending the rights of all animals to live free from human exploitation.Through the 1990s, he served on the Board of Directors of the Willits Environmental Center to thwart the relentless destructive forces of local economic development. In the 2000s and 2010s, he authored an op/ed column, Connecting the Dots, that focused on environmental and animal rights issues for his hometown newspaper, The Mendocino County Observer.For thirty years, Jonathan kept abreast of the most current studies on the complex relationship between the human food niche and the Earth's ecosystems. When he realized there were no books in the ecological canon telling the story of how humans evolved from an obscure herbivorous species to become the world's most populous carnivorous apex predator species, and how this change in human diet has led to epidemics of chronic degenerative disease, runaway climate change and mass species extinction, he decided to write it himself.Jonathan has lived in Mendocino County on California's North Coast since the 1980s. He can be reached at: plantbased.js@gmail.com Read More Read Less