michael pollan

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.

Part 2 of interview by Deborah Kane of Ecotrust, with Michael Pollan when he was in town recently on the book tour for "In Defense of Food".  If you haven't read this book, or "Omnivore's Dilemma", I highly recommend both. Something worth thinking about...

Michael Pollan’s new book, In Defense of Food, provides the backdrop for his talk at the Bagdad Theater in Portland, Oregon, and this prior interview with Deborah Kane of the environmental nonprofit organization, Ecotrust.

Michael Pollan covers what "unsustainable" mean for modern, industrial agriculture, and what it spawns. Mutated bacteria which now kill more Americans than AIDS, for starters. And, this starts with over-medicated bacon!

It is an honest look at how our freedom to participate in traditional food growing and purchasing has been taken away. Every year the government tightens the noose and forces the American farmer to industrialize and centralize his or her operation and they force the consumers to purchase food products that fall within the realm of their total and complete control. We have little freedom to make our own food choices anymore and MANY people don’t even know it.