Michael Pollan

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• 7 Healthy Foods That Will Fill You Up and Prevent Overeating

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 148
  David A. Kessler, the author of “The End of Overeating”, explains very well how people become addicted to foods that are high in sugar, fat and salt. Like addiction does, this causes people to crave so they eat more and more foods that are loaded with unhealthy ingredients and many times, completely devoid of ...
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• Intelligent dissent on the food movement

  
  A Thinking Reed — Authority: 496
  I’m obviously sympathetic to a lot of the proposals of Michael Pollan, et al., but some of what passes for criticism of our system of food production can come across as simplistic, naive, or nostalgic. That’s why I was happy to discover the blog of historian and author Maureen Ogle who, among other things, ...
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• Getting back to the (organic) garden

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 524
  Chard grown at Washington University by Burning Kumquat, a student-run organic gardening collective. Photo courtesy Burning Kumquat. Nearly three years ago, I started to get serious about applying my spiritual philosophy to my food choices. I’ve slipped a little lately, and am hoping to get serious again with the ...
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• Michael Pollan: “What’s in the beef?”

  
  Commodity Corner — Authority: 119
  Photo by Kris Krüg Where does your burger come from? Journalist and food writer Michael Pollan has traced back the source of much of what we eat, and says that the ultimate answer is oil. Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma , argues that it takes massive amounts of petroleum-derived fertilizers and ...
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• Food Inc. Blu-Ray: If You Care About Your Body, Then You’ll Care About This Film

  
  PopCultureShock :: Comics : Games : Movies : Lifestyle — Authority: 493
  Year: 2008 Running Time: 91 minutes Rated: PG SRP: $34.98 Studio(s): Magnolia Home Entertainment Release Date: November 3, 2008 Film/Feature: A+ The arrival of the golden arches signaled a change that farmers had to produce food fast and cheap. Once the demand was in place, so too did the system arrive that would ...
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• The Real Price of Cheap Food

  
  Everyday Justice — Authority: 408
  Reposted from Alternet – Award-winning food journalist Michael Pollan was invited to speak on October 15 at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo but after pressure from a university donor who is chairman of the Harris Ranch Beef Co., the university changed his speech to a panel discussion. ...
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• Michael Pollan on what kids should eat

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 510
  Michael Pollan laid out his views about how we raise, harvest or kill, and eat, our food in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma . Now he’s written The Omnivore’s Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat . In this moment with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer , Pollan offers his recommendations for young ...
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• FRESH the movie Screening November 15 @ WashU

  
  Slow Food St. Louis — Authority: 99
  Sunday, November 15, 2009, join Washington University’s student-run garden, Burning Kumqua t, and Slow Food St. Louis for a screening of FRESH the movie . FRESH celebrates  the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation ...
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• Despite Censorship By Beef Magnate, Michael Pollan Spreads Message About the Real Price of Cheap Food

  
  Our Beloved Earth — Authority: 135
  Despite Censorship By Beef Magnate, Michael Pollan Spreads Message About the Real Price of Cheap FoodBy , AlterNetNovember 9, 2009 Link to full article belowAward-winning food journalist Michael Pollan was invited to speak on October 15 at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo but after pressure ...
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• Ahem.

  
  Knit. Run. Repeat. — Authority: 122
  Im not terribly worried about my results last week. Weight fluctuates from day to day; Sunday morning it looked like I was going to be able to report a loss, but I officially weigh in on Monday, so thats what I had to go with.Ive taken a few breaks over time, but for the past, oh, 10 years or so Ive been trying to ...
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• Eating Less Requires Training

  
  Green Options — Authority: 145
  “ Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants ,” says Michael Pollan. While I’m pretty good at eating real, non-processed food and basing my diet on plants, I struggle with the “not too much” part. I love food. I probably love it a little too much. Although I’m very active, I carry around 10-20 extra pounds ...
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• Natalie Portman: Meat’s a Sin, Free Polanski

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 806
  Natalie Portman is a vegetarian – a vegan, to be precise – and she thinks you should be one too. At least, that’s the impression I get from her article at the Huffington Post . In fact, she really goes so far as to infer that those of us who eat animals or animal products are inhumane beasts. Apparently, ...
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• Botany of Desire - bonus video

  
  Garden Fresh Living — Authority: 117
  I dont know how many of you saw The Botany of Desire on PBS, but it was fabulous. It is based on the book by Michael Pollan.If you missed it, you can watch the full-length program HERE. You can also...
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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 106
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• Tell Obama to Remove “Big Agriculture” from the USDA

  
  JerseySmarts.com — Authority: 427
  Hey, I know that I hoot and holler a lot about our country getting a better, more sustainable food supply. For those of you that are bothered by this, I’m sorry but it’s one of the things that I feel strongly about these days. I really believe that our countrymen have been put in a bad way because of a lousy ...
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• Stewed Dog Is Delicious: The Carnivore’s Conundrum

  
  The Daily Clog — Authority: 508
  Every girl you know with a septum piercing and a thing for Jews hightailed her androgynous-footwear to the Multicultural Center Friday night with a single hope: to get extremely loud and incredibly close with bestselling author Jonathan Safran Foer. And his glasses. After a reading from his new non-fiction book, ...
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• Eleven Things You Could Do Instead Of Reading Jonathan Safran Foers Book About Not Eating Meat [Health Class]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  1. Eat a cheeseburger. 2. Eat some pork buns. 3. Eat some steak. 4. Eat some Greys Papaya. 5. Eat some wings. 6. Eat some tacos. Pork tacos. 7. Eat some bacon (but dont be obnoxious about...
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• Real Food 101: The How-To Basics.

  
  Fitness Advice, Workout Videos, Health & Fitness | Bodyrock.tv — Authority: 125
  Over the last few years, we’ve noticed big change happening in how lots of North Americans are looking at food. Instead of an incessant focus on individual ingredients, miracle supplements, and the latest food-science discoveries, a lot of people have been turning back towards a purposefully simple philosophy of ...
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• Vegetarian’s Rebuttal to ‘The Carnivore’s Dilemma’

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 134
  Eat Me. You might possibly, perhaps be doing something good for the environment. Credit: Ethicurean Last week’s NY Times featured an op-ed entitled ” The Carnivore’s Dilemma “–an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one’s ...
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• Michael Pollan’s plant’s-eye view

  
  Open Learning — Authority: 99
    Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, Botany of Desire , is now a film, and you can watch it online, courtesy of PBS . (Click to watch complete film.) The film takes you inside our relationship with the plant world, and shows “how four familiar species — the apple, the tulip, cannabis and the potato — ...
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