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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act
  • Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:36:16 -0700

I totally agree with you Harvey.  But of course I am a solid Weston Price/Mercola type test kind of gal and a very strong protein type.  I eat mostly grassfed meat/dairy protein (all raw or very rare) and fat (in the form of meat fats and dairy fats) and weigh about 115 pounds at age 49.  My body feels awful if I eat grain - though I do indulge at times - and alternative types of protein like beans taste and feel awful to me.  I am lucky in that I raise my own grass fed beef/lamb/goat and drink my own raw goats milk and eat raw goat yogurt. 
 
Diversified small farm systems are the way to go. 
 
Excellent article by Ellen by the way. 
 
Blessings
 
Aliza
 
 
 
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political
Act
From: Harvey Ussery <boxwood@nelsoncable.com>
Date: Mon, November 10, 2008 5:36 am
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org

>
> Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act
> http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/105667/michael_pollan%3A_eating_is_a_political_act/
> By Mark Eisen, The Progressive. Posted November 8, 2008. ~Posted by Paul

Pollan has done a great job of focusing our attention on the absurdities
of our current agriculture/food system. But he's not a nutritionist, and
there are important ways he gets it wrong in his most recent book, In
Defense of Food. I think he needs to take a closer look at the idea of
getting back to the diversified small farm. In that model, with an
essential reliance on animals as well as plant crops as part of the mix,
I'm not sure that vegetarianism is as much a more-evolved way of eating
as Pollan seems to think. There are also many inconsistencies in In
Defense on nutritional/health issues, e.g. with regard to consumption of
saturated fats.

See Ellen Ussery's review of In Defense of Food from this perspective at:
http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/In-Defense-of-Food.html

~Harvey

--
Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

I truly believe that as long as we have not found peace with the soil, we won't find peace above the ground. That as long as we justify the exploitation of any organism, other exploitations will follow and we will remain parasites, consuming more than participating, and spiralling into entropy until we commit mass suicide. ~Emilia Hazelip

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