The plant-based revolution is far from over

Christine Manby talks to Zoey Henderson about the book that changed her diet and her life

(Tom Ford)

Let food be thy medicine,” said Hippocrates the Ancient Greek physician. Two and a half millennia later, hospitality entrepreneur Zoey Henderson has taken that advice to heart.

Describing how she went from being an “on-off vegetarian” to embracing a fully vegan diet, Henderson says, “I’d been a vegetarian for years when I decided to become vegan for personal moral reasons. I was very concerned with animal welfare and also the welfare of the people who work in the meat industry: the factory workers and the farmers who are being squeezed all over the world. The whole industry didn’t sit well with me at all.”

She continues, “When I became a vegan, I found myself facing a lot of questions. People wanted to know why, of course. They also wanted to know how I would survive. Would I get enough protein? What about my bones? Could I get enough calcium without eating dairy? I wanted to be able to give them the data.”