![]() ![]() “hat other animal needs professional help in deciding what it should eat?” he asks. Instead, he uses his familiar brand of carefully researched, common-sense journalism to persuade, providing guidelines and convincing arguments. Pollan subtitles his new book “An Eater’s Manifesto,” but he’s way too polite to tell us what to eat. Twenty years ago, it might have been difficult, but today organic, regionally grown food is more available than it has been since the food industry began controlling our consumption. Mostly plants.” The good news is, he thinks we can do it. It’s most evident in the last of the trilogy, “In Defense of Food,” whose simple message is “Eat food. That optimism fueled two of his earlier books: “The Botany of Desire,” about our relationship with food, and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” which urged variety in our diet. It’s a food bill, and Americans who eat want a stake in it.” Pollan may be skeptical about whether American eaters can thwart passage of a bill that includes $42 billion in subsidies for the big cash crops - corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and cotton - but he firmly believes that “the eaters have spoken a new politics has sprouted up.” In a recent op-ed piece in the New York Times, Michael Pollan quotes Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, on the farm bill now before Congress: “This is not just a farm bill. ![]() In Defense of Food By Susan Salter Reynolds ![]()
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