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. I agree with his perspective, and will continue to invest in real, high quality food – without guilt! This is a book I will undoubtedly reference back to again and again.Ĭheck out other ACN-Approved books and resources here and let us know what you’d like to see our students and alumni review.In Defense of Food By Susan Salter Reynolds Pollan supports investing in good quality food, not only for an individual’s health – but for the health of the workers growing the food, and for the planet as a whole. It did my heart good to read the encouragement to keep it up. I have always carried around much guilt for spending money on organic, high-quality foods. A wonderful guide when navigating the grocery store aisles! I also appreciated his research on how Americans spend so much less on food than in other countries.
Perhaps what I most enjoyed about this book was Pollan’s simple tip to not eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize. It’s a dizzying dance of corruption and capitalism that has taken something so simple – our food – and made it into something that might resemble food, but has a very long list of ingredients that really make it a “food-like substance.” It is not simply “fuel.” Michael Pollan exposes how the “nutritionism” of food has led the food industry into a pendulum of different diets and fads based on any given studies of the moment – many of which are later proven wrong (such as the marketing of margarine as good for heart health). In Defense of Food is a wonderful book that argues a very simple case – that food is more than the sum of its nutritional components.
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