Posts Tagged ‘michael pollan’

Michael Pollan Says We Must Fix The Food System To Truly Fix Healthcare

Filed under: food & drink, green and famous — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 10:40 am

September 15th 2009

Michael Pollan is getting on that dietary pulpit and speaking the gospel.
The Bestselling author is warning that if we don’t fix our food system, we’ll never fix our health-care system.
Pollan recently told the New York Times:
“Cheap food is going to be popular as long as the social and environmental costs of that food are charged [...]

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Bill Maher Discusses Food Industry With Writer Michael Pollan

Filed under: film-tv, food & drink, television — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 9:49 am

June 1st 2009

Bill Maher knows what’s up. Plain and simple.
On Friday’s episode of Real Time, Bill chatted with author Michael Pollan about our extremely effed up food industry.
From dairy to tuna, Bill and Michael dissected the foods that were not only hurting our bodies, but our planet as well.
During the interview, Pollan said:
“What happens on your plate represents your [...]

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Barack Obama Discusses The Dangers Of Modern Factory Agriculture

Filed under: green and famous — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 11:53 am

November 17th 2008

Granted I was only born during Reagan’s presidency, but it’s hard for me to recall hearing a president discuss modern agriculture (see also: factory farming) in any sort of productive way. 
President Elect Barack Obama recently chatted with New York Times contributer Joe Klein about food policy and the dangers of our current system. Obama said: 
“I was just [...]

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