Kurt <kurtwheeling1965@hotmail.com> wrote:
: On Jan 30, 6:42?am, Chris Malcolm <c...@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
: > At the BBC2 TV Newsnight web page
: >
: >
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ht/default.stm
: >
: > you can replay to Tv programme which contains an interview with Pollan
: > (about 22mins in) and a couple of food scientists, and you can read an
: > extract of his vews prepared by Pollan for the BBC.
: >
: > Pollan thinks the food industry and its apologist, modern nutritional
: > science, have done us a great disservice. He claims that over the
: > world are a great variety of reasonably healthy traditional diets
: > which all have one thing in common: when the people start eating the
: > modern Western diet they start suffering from the usual Western
: > diet-related degenerative diseases. He advises us to eat nothing which
: > our grandmother wouldn't recognise as food.
: >
: > He's not at all anti-science, very pro-science. He's just against
: > modern nutritional science because he thinks it's crap.
: Well he's got the game plan down cold. Write a book that basically
: says what doctors have been advising people to do for years and tell
: everyone that his is a new aopriach. By doing that one can sell lots
: of books!
: Kurt
Are your doctors telling you to et organic foods, running around chickens
who follow the cattle from field tofiled so they can eat he maggots in the
dung and to not use fertilizers, etc? Mine don't, although hey encourage
eating vegetables, etc, but have never mentioned how theywere raised.
That really is a big part of his program, including humane treatment of
the amnimals and not feeding the cattle on corn, which is subsidized by
the government to the detriment of vegetable farmers who don't get those
subsidies .
Wendy
Michael Pollan on BBC TV 
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