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Jane Goodall’s “Harvest for Hope”

Celebrated primatologist Jane Goodall, best known to the world for her work with chimpanzees, first arrived in Africa in 1960 when she was 26-years-old. Today she is regarded as a foremost authority on chimpanzees and their conservation, work she has detailed in several books including her bestselling “Reason for Hope.”

Now in her seventies she has taken up another deeply personal cause, urging Western Society to think more carefully about the food it produces and consumes in her new book “Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating.”

In this radio diary, Goodall talks about her new cause.

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Jane Goodall, foremost authority on chimpanzees and founder of the Jane Goodall Insitute. She is the author of several books including “Reason for Hope”. Her new book is “Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating”.

 
 

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