Michael Pollan: a different way to fix the health care crisis

Pollan has some new and intriguing ideas about how to make our country healthier, needing less expensive health care - and at the same time helping the planet and the’ Mom and Pop’ economy in his new book, ‘Food Rules: An eaters manual’. This is the most welcome followup to ‘In Defense of Food: An eaters’ manifesto’.

I believe that 2010 could be a pivotal year in which we can all become activists - food activists. Despite our other differences, we all need healthful, sustainable food to nourish both our bodies, minds and communities.

This could be the map you - and your family -  use to begin. Get your entire family enlisted as food activists.

Today.

From the Huffington Post

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Food Inc. message still resonates

My pre-ordered copy of the DVD ‘Food Inc’ - Eric Shlosser and Michael Pollan’s powerful indictment of the factory farmed, laboratory concocted horror generally regarded as ‘food’ in America came today. Natacha hadn’t seen it and is still sitting out there watching in disgust.

Like so much else in America, our food has been hijacked by mega corporations and the cost in health, human dignity, animal health, and our environment is horrifying.

I urge your to order your copy and invite your neighbors, relatives and co-workers to watch. It’s a tough films to watch, but it just might change enough minds to change the way we eat, farm, and treat our workers, our animals, our health and our environment.

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Food, Inc. coming to theatres on June 12. You'll never look at food the same way again.

It’s time for Americans to take their food back from the corporations, nutritionistas and - to a lesser extent, the government. Get it out of the factory farm mode. Back to sustainable models of real food - the food that fed our grandparents, without the fake, the toxic, the dangerous and the deadly. Let’s shed the weight and related health problems by shedding the fake diets, learning to eat good food in modest quantities, while incorporating a reasonable amount of exercise into each day.

Please go to see Food, Inc. when it opens on June 12, and if you have the time, read “The Eaters Manifesto” by Michael Pollan.

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Bill Maher Interviews Michael Pollan about film, Food Inc.

Michael Pollan is one of today’s sharpest commentators answering the questions we should all be asking about where our food comes from, and the real price we’re paying for it in terms of our health and the health of the planet. I’m really looking forward to Food, Inc., in which Eric Schlosser ( Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) both star.

A more serious discussion with Michael Pollan appeared last year on Bill Moyers Journal.

Update on Monday, June 1, 2009 at 11:13 by mavenandmeddler

HBO is kindly blocking all these videos …. hmmmm. So please go searching and let me know if you can find one that hasn’t been blocked.

Thanks, Early … but that one has been blocked, too.