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Subject: Re: [Livingontheland]
Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political
Act
From: Harvey Ussery
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Date: Mon, November 10, 2008 5:36
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> Michael
Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act
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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.usI
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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