Eater's Dilemma: Returning to Basics

"In Defense of Food" (The Penguin Press, 256 pages, $21.95), by Michael Pollan: Food isn't what it once was. Actually, much of what we eat today may not be food at all. That is the main lesson drawn from Michael Pollan's new book, "In Defense of Food," a meticulously researched, self-described "Eater's Manifesto."

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If you've read In Defense of Food or Omnivore's Dilemma, you might find Pollan's rules for food interesting. My favorite: It's better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

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It's about time we started talking about things that can keep us healthy as part of the solution to health care costs. By every measure, being well is far better than reduced cost services and discount drugs. Kudos to Michael Pollan for standing up to say it so well.

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So Mackey is wrong on health care, but Whole Foods is often right about food, and their support for the farmers matters more to me than the political views of their founder.

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by Jill Richardson

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Who want to cencor Michael Pollan?

Yes, censorship is still here and it even can be used against one of the most interesting and successful green books - The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (http://www.michaelpollan.com/omnivore.php).

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Writer Michael Pollan, author of the best-seller "In Defense of Food," has gained a passionate following by encouraging us to change the way we think about food. But for his next project, he wants your help.

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When President-elect Barack Obama chose former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as his secretary of agriculture, he praised Vilsack's knowledge of both agriculture and energy. But author Michael Pollan says the incoming administration's focus should be on food and the people who eat it.

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Bill Moyers sits down with Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley, to discuss what direction the US should pursue in the often-overlooked question of food policy. Pollan is author of IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: AN EATER'S MANIFESTO.

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Hear what Michael Pollan, author of the Omnivore's Dilemma, has to say about the future of our food policy

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To repair the broken system that supplies the bulk of the nation's diet will require Americans to step out of the garden and into the public arena.

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Please read this! You would not believe the ridiculous regulations aimed at removing all possible sources of pathogens from a farmer's field. Ex.

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Consumers are getting duped by the food industry, paying the price with their health.

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Consumers are getting duped by the food industry, paying the price with their health.

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Food's under attack from two quarters.

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Great interview with Michael Pollan, a writer-speaker-activist on organic food issues. He discusses his new book "In Defense of Food" and debunks junk science beliefs. Here's a sample:

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Rebutting the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential.

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"In Defense of Food" is a tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential.

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If the eaters make themselves heard, we might end up with something that looks less like a farm bill and more like the food bill a poorly fed America so badly needs.

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"Local food economies are our best hope for checking the drift toward the total global economy. A revolt is underway across this country-a revolt of small producers and consumers.

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Every five years Congress is burdened with the task of extending the Farm Bill, a piece of legislation that began as a way to support small farmers from collapsing prices during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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Time was, a war of words between a food writer and an organic-foods retailer would have attracted the interest of maybe seven people in your local food co-op–a bit of chatter over the brown-rice bin and everyone would move on.

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Another article from the Times Magazine by Michael Pollan showing us not why it is so hard to eat helathy and the politics and industry behind the food biz.

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Amanda Kelso was a 12-year veteran of vegetarianism when she went AWOL. She blames pork. "Bacon was a temptress to me," she says in her 30 Days of Pork series on photo-sharing site Flickr. Ms.

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For those of you who missed Michael Pollan's recent piece "Unhappy Meals" in The New York Times Magazine or didn't get a chance to read The Omnivore's Dilemma, I am going to synthesize his wisdom and insight into a few bite-sized bullet points:

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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