Author decries food industry (Read 935 times)

Michael Pollan in Toronto http://www.thestar.com/living/Food/article/307915

hah...try finding something other than highly processed, fried anything in the midwest...I would live for some decent vegatables in the grocery store.....

Summer's comin'! I look forward to produce that has only been shipped an hour or two to my store!

Summer's comin'! I look forward to produce that has only been shipped an hour or two to my store!

I have an acre of grass...a lot of that crap is getting rototilled under to make way for a bigger garden!!! then....asparagus, squash, broccoli, beens and maybe some brussel sprouts....assuming I can assasinate the dang moles....

I've read other articles about him and his books before. This one tipped me over the edge and makes me want to actually read one of his books. Thanks for posting.

His books are really excellent!

My wife would get along with that guy famously. She's into the whole organic soy milk bit and she eats kale every morning in this horrible smoothy concoction that looks like chopped up grass in purple dirt. Ick. The comedian Lewis Black said something like "Soy milk is not real, because there is no soy ti**ie." I prefer my milk come from a nipple, preferably a cow's.

Easy for him to say. Our daughter has a milk/milk protein allergy. Has an EpiPen and everything. Chances are she'll outgrow it, but in the interim our house is a dairy-free zone.

Brandon - I see you're in Savannah. Wonder what Pollan would say about The Lady and Sons?

Well, really traditional southern cooking includes lots of vegetables where "meat is treated more as a condiment than the main event" (think ham hocks in greens - delicious by the way) - which is the heritage that Paula Deen owes her fortune to. I'm sure he wouldn't be a big fan of the mayonaise heavy casseroles on the other hand. As meat became more affordable, southern cooking began to focus more and more on meat as the main event. My mother grew up in a home where a single chicken (small, not the hormone fed behemoths of today) was split 9 ways, but there were plenty of garden vegetables on the table to make up the difference.

Why has Trent not responded here?

Nothin' more needed sayin'.