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Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food 3
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There's more to eating than just its effect upon our health. Pleasure, a sense of community, our sense of connection with nature, these are all highly important aspects of eating that may get overlooked. In this segment with Deborah Kane of Ecotrust, Michael Pollan connects the dots, between our over-reliance upon science, in this case, the science of nutrition, and our gross under-appreciation of culture as the trustworthy guide to our approach to eating food.
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@video:Toward the end of the video where he is talking about eating food that rots, and how your grandmother would not recognize cereal bars or most items in a grocery store. Well a lot of what was said, sounded like common sense, or logic.
I'm always willing to keep an open mind, chance I may learn something new. Five star.
I am not sure, historyless people are able to judging, if culture includes coking or not.
I'd rether read something by a real writer than by a sell out commecial hack.
As he said at 5:32 "There's no reason to buy this book, it can be boiled down to seven words."
Pure dreck.
Everything he says makes sense if you stop to listen to what he is saying.
For anyone interested in this, I recommend watching the documentary "King Corn" as well.
I know an infomercial when I see one...Wayne Dyer also makes sense but I wouldn't call him a writer or intellectual either.
Cash is king with these guys and they prey upon an unsuspecting public desperate to find meaning in their lives, even in subjects as mundane as the ones Pollan explores.
There's a sucker born every minute. Read a real author.
This subject warrants discussion. You overlook the fact he isn't "waxing philosophical" but pointing out how society has shifted its eating habits over the last 30 years.
It is a pity you don't see his insight.
These self serving "gurus" who are getting rich off of the gullibility and emotional needs of the public need to be exposed for what they are; hustlers preying on anyone who will listen to them.
Just go to Whole Foods and buy something decent to eat...do you really need Pollan telling you what to do or are you another sucker he lives off?
Even prisons have 'em, so you should be fine. (They don't require that one pay for the books, just return them l8tr.)
Sounds as tho' you're the sucker. Of cock!
"Something your grandmother'd recognize as food"...is a good rule. She sure devoured my schlong, right after I'd stuck in in your mom's out-box, and didn't wash it in between. Granny loves her some ATM! (4 the undigested nutrients, no doubt.)
No harm in arguing that point, but very much harm in his anti-science rants. His target should be not science, but INDUSTRY - the food industry. What SCIENCE has done with food is not deserving of his scorn and derision. SCIENCE, with regard to food, ended hunger in many parts of the world, by revolutionizing agriculture. Look up the work of Norman Borlaug, for example, and be awed.
Quantity and exercise accounts for most of it, yes.
But it's not just quantity; you can be as thin as you like but 10 grams of sodium each day will still give you hypertension. Not eating enough fibre will still predispose you to colon cancer and make it difficult to go to the toilet. etc.