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Michael Pollan's new book
Topic Started: Jan 12 2010, 06:16 AM (86 Views)
John Galt
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Michael Pollan is at it again, writing about food. These "food rules" were great:

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“If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don’t.”

“It’s not food if it’s served through the window of your car.”

“It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language.” Think Big Mac, Cheetos or Pringles.


http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/michael-pollan-offers-64-ways-to-eat-food/
Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.
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Red Rice
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I think the "Don't drink alone" rule applies to eating as well. I eat a lot more when I'm by myself.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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I read Omnivore's Dilemma and loved it. It forever changed the way I think about the food I eat. I also heard him speak last year at Bates College. I think he is the brightest light out there when it comes to changing attitudes en masse with regard to sustainable agriculture.
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