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Beschreibung | Michael Kevin Pollan (/ˈpɒlən/; geboren am 6. Februar 1955) ist ein US-amerikanischer Autor und Journalist, der derzeit als Knight Professor für Wissenschafts- und Umweltjournalismus an der UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism tätig ist. Pollan ist vor allem für seine Bücher bekannt, die sich mit den soziokulturellen Auswirkungen von Lebensmitteln befassen, wie etwa The Botany of Desire und The Omnivore's Dilemma. |
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
High-quality food is better for your health.
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
