Christopher D. Cook is an author and award-winning journalist based in San Francisco. He has reported and written on social and economic justice issues for many national publications, including Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, The Progressive, and others. Cook won an Aronson Award for his investigative report on welfare agencies requiring recipients to work in dangerous meatpacking plants. Other honors include a Project Censored Award, finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and two-time finalist for the Livingston Award. He has also worked as a reporter for The Oakland Tribune and United Press International, and as city editor for The San Francisco Bay Guardian. His first book, Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis, was widely praised and went paperback.