I love Michael Pollan! I used to be a really dumb dull consumer buying everything thats cheap from Walmart and one day I guess I just woke up. I was skimming through my Netflix videos and came across Food Inc. After that I started doing more and more research and realized what the hell was I thinking? I could not believe everything I found out. I strictly only buy organic products now. By buying organic products I'm supporting more jobs and helping the economy and my health. Wake up America!
i freaking love democracy now. this is a real news program. you listen hear debate talk understand get information from your guest. unlike those bullshit tv channels were the guest doesnt even get 20sec without being laughed at or cut off. im getting to the point were i hate everything in this country. our foods are poisoned our water and even our air. our tv and now they are trying to police our internet. every great nation falls eventually.
Pollan supports Tom "Mr. Monsanto" Vilsack. His defense of the FDA is also bullshit. Both department (USDA & FDA) are staffed with Monsanto executives. Obama is a corporatist who staffed his administration with corporatists including USDA & FDA.
@magicdaveable Yep... If people cant tell that this is propaganda within the first 1 minute they are easily manipulated retards. This is good proof of how "democracy now" and all other "alternative media" are being used to spoon feed bullshit to the retards just like the main stream.
Both of these people on this screen are backed by corporate interest, and spout corporate propaganda disguised as truth.
@bryphi77 I am most concerned with the Food Modernization Safety Act or however it is titled. "They" have made it illegal to grow your own food and increasingly difficult for small farms to survive. I have been deeply involved with truly sustainable food systems for over 30 years. Fighting Monsanto et al has been quixotic at best but I have been fighting them since the days of Viet Nam and agent orange.
@magicdaveable I grow and raise most of my own food. I dont think you have to worry about them outlawing home gardens. I am sure they would like to, but it would make the tyranny too obvious, and it would have an adverse effect. There is no way that it could be enforced. They could try, but that is the least of my worries. They can take my garden right after they pry the gun from my cold dead hand.
My biggest problem is the way media is being used to guide the easily manipulated.
@bryphi77 I can't argue with you about prying certain items from my cold dead fingers. It amazes me how many "lefties" just do not understand what the 2nd Amendment means and why it is place number 2. They talk the talk about fighting tyranny but few walk the walk. The meek won't inherit anything. They will be trampled under the boot of the fascists. By the way, nice "meeting" you.
Yay Professor Pollan! I love the calm yet insistent way he speaks. Can't wait to get my hands on his books, been listening to his videos & reading other materials about him for awhile now!
This is all well and good for him, but what the hell does he expect people to do? "Oh I guess I'll spend all my money of veggies and fruits that will most likely go bad before I get to eat them all" and that's money down the drain. The system needs to change; you can't expect people to become experts on nutrition just to prevent themselves from dying obese, diabetes-related death. You can try all you want to be healthy and still end up eating junk.
@colafroggy It's not that difficult to eat healthy, you goto the store, you buy enough for a few days and you eat. How hard is that? What kind of expert do you think you need to be to buy healthy? Are you that stupid?
@ACLogikel There's no reason to be an asshole. Use some common sense - there's a problem in the system that not everyone has the fortune of being able to fix. Not everyone has enough money to buy healthy food. It costs more money to eat healthy than it does to eat junk, and when you're poor it isn't about health, it's about being able to pay for food as well as heat and running water. I eat pretty healthy and take care of myself, but I have enough empathy to know not everyone is as lucky as me.
@colafroggy That's the biggest myth in the food industry, I used to think the same way until I actually started eating right. Now I actually have money at the end of the month, before I was broke by mid month just like everyone else in the lower/middle class. Quit lying to yourself, you wouldn't fucking know because you don't eat healthy. A bag of apples cost like $3-4 .. that's about 12-15 apples... or you could get 3 or 4 dollar menu items. Yea, seems a lot cheaper to eat junk. :/
@ACLogikel Wow, you're a real asshole, you know that? I DO eat healthy (I don't like apples though, just not a favorite). I'm not really talking about MYSELF, so you need to cut the shit. We're arguing for the same thing: people eating good food. You just happen to be an idiot. There are a lot of foods that are good for you that don't cost a lot, apples being one of them, but generally healthy food DOES tend to cost more. I do think people should still take better care of themselves, though.
@colafroggy You're so full of shit, damn straight I'm an asshole. We live in a world where boys wear tight pants, make up and act like girly bitches. We live in a world where idiots run their mouth without ever doing things for themselves because they have the internet.
You sir are full of shit, it does NOT cost more to eat right. Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, you can buy healthier and save money. Not my fault YOU'RE too stupid to figure that out. Enjoy your empty pockets and burgers.
I have four decades of drinking soda and eating cheeseburgers with fries. I've been eating garbage my whole life. I've smoked cigarettes for two decades. How am I gonna reverse the damage it's already done? I'm scared pretty bad. I was in the hospital last month getting stitches and saw patients lying on beds. The doctors and nurses all sucked; bunch of dickheads... very depressing and sad place...
What the hell am I gonna do? I can't afford health insurance either. Good grief, I'm fucked.
great on everything except pesticides.he really needs to look a bit deeper at the biochemistry in the body and how organic food is worse for the environment than properly used pesticides in the long run. the main problem with pesticides is misuse and their reputation from the nasty ones that were used in the past
Already more than 25,000 people have signed the letter calling on President Obama and Secretary Vilsack to halt the sale and planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa and sugar beets until more independent science can be conducted to evaluate this recently discovered threat to our farmers and our food supply. Unfortunately, the Obama administration is continuing to ignore the implications these new findings have in relation to our food supply. Fooddemocracydotcom
why do you think that everywhere where people eat processed foods etc. so many people die of cancer and heart disease? the numbers are drastically reduced in countries where people eat fresh foods grown by themselves or locals. thats what our bodies need, we didn't evolve to end up eating processed junk foods.
I hate how anti-science this guy. Bah. It's not that when you use science things go wrong... it's when business wants to sell/get-rid-of a product that contain little to no nutritional value and the consumer buys it...that we have a problem. The answer's simple. Demand better and hold what you will put in your body to a better standard or eat up shit they sell to you.
"edible food-like substances" good one! and sad to say, very accurate. I was reading the ingredients of a box of something or the other recently realised that i didn't know half the stuff in the list.
This organic craze is easy if your single,or a yuppie no kids couple,but its not practical for most working families who work 12 hour days to then come home and make an organic dinner.
I agree, dude. At least, not in a single-parent family where the mom works 12+ hours a night. I imagine it's easy in a nice, communal family. But in MOST cases, ...yeah, it's tough. That's just family cohesion though, really.
Your "incredible, Edible, EGG" is responsible for more pain and horror than anything you can imagine. The chickens are kept in small battery cages, crammed in so tightly they can never move their wings, or peck at a itch. These battery cages are stacked super high, so the chickens in the bottom cages either drown or swallow all the feces and urine that drops down. The chickens' beaks are cut off (and without anesthesia). There is nothing GOOD about eating -- much less BUYING -- an egg.
I try to by fresh and organic as much as I can,but realistically Pollan's appeal is for people to by all organic all the time.Trying to achieve all organic is difficult for the average Joe Sixpack.
If you read The Omnivore's Dilemma you'd know he advocates something more complex- it's more about sustainability, ethics, reduction of the "industrialization" of food in general. Read the chapter Big Organic to see his critique and commentar on the Organic Farming Industry as it stands now. Joe Sixpack can go to the farmer's market or the produce section of the grocery store. Pollack says in this video... the healthiest food doesn't advertise its healthiness- it's sitting quietly in produce
That's because the average Joe Sixpack has no idea what Mr. Pollan's talking about. It's not about just buying fresh and organic, it's about completely overhauling what one eats. It is highly possible to put back all the Lean Pockets, slabs of meat, and packaged cheese in favor of spinach, sweet potatoes, and grapefruit for not much more in price, if any difference. This is a lifestyle and culture debate more so than an availability debate. I've lived in real rural places; it can be done.
It also helps to cook your food. I'm not rich, but I buy mostly organic and we cook. I bet I spend less per week than some "non-yuppie" who eats fast food every meal.
I love Michael Pollan! I used to be a really dumb dull consumer buying everything thats cheap from Walmart and one day I guess I just woke up. I was skimming through my Netflix videos and came across Food Inc. After that I started doing more and more research and realized what the hell was I thinking? I could not believe everything I found out. I strictly only buy organic products now. By buying organic products I'm supporting more jobs and helping the economy and my health. Wake up America!
7891midnight 1 week ago
i freaking love democracy now. this is a real news program. you listen hear debate talk understand get information from your guest. unlike those bullshit tv channels were the guest doesnt even get 20sec without being laughed at or cut off. im getting to the point were i hate everything in this country. our foods are poisoned our water and even our air. our tv and now they are trying to police our internet. every great nation falls eventually.
inad316 2 weeks ago 2
How could anyone give this a thumbs down?! Mind boggling.
zzinosferatuizz 1 month ago
Pollan supports Tom "Mr. Monsanto" Vilsack. His defense of the FDA is also bullshit. Both department (USDA & FDA) are staffed with Monsanto executives. Obama is a corporatist who staffed his administration with corporatists including USDA & FDA.
magicdaveable 2 months ago
@magicdaveable Yep... If people cant tell that this is propaganda within the first 1 minute they are easily manipulated retards. This is good proof of how "democracy now" and all other "alternative media" are being used to spoon feed bullshit to the retards just like the main stream.
Both of these people on this screen are backed by corporate interest, and spout corporate propaganda disguised as truth.
bryphi77 1 month ago
@bryphi77 I am most concerned with the Food Modernization Safety Act or however it is titled. "They" have made it illegal to grow your own food and increasingly difficult for small farms to survive. I have been deeply involved with truly sustainable food systems for over 30 years. Fighting Monsanto et al has been quixotic at best but I have been fighting them since the days of Viet Nam and agent orange.
magicdaveable 1 month ago
@magicdaveable I grow and raise most of my own food. I dont think you have to worry about them outlawing home gardens. I am sure they would like to, but it would make the tyranny too obvious, and it would have an adverse effect. There is no way that it could be enforced. They could try, but that is the least of my worries. They can take my garden right after they pry the gun from my cold dead hand.
My biggest problem is the way media is being used to guide the easily manipulated.
bryphi77 1 month ago
@bryphi77 I can't argue with you about prying certain items from my cold dead fingers. It amazes me how many "lefties" just do not understand what the 2nd Amendment means and why it is place number 2. They talk the talk about fighting tyranny but few walk the walk. The meek won't inherit anything. They will be trampled under the boot of the fascists. By the way, nice "meeting" you.
magicdaveable 1 month ago
where are there only 15,000 views? there should be 15 Million. this is important stuff........
jeff4bucks 3 months ago
Why would anyone watch all those stupid TV shows? There's so much to learn!
LordOfTheGnus 3 months ago 6
Yay Professor Pollan! I love the calm yet insistent way he speaks. Can't wait to get my hands on his books, been listening to his videos & reading other materials about him for awhile now!
Abeba323 3 months ago
WOW! Will read his book! Thankyou Pollan!
gogobergie2000 4 months ago
This is all well and good for him, but what the hell does he expect people to do? "Oh I guess I'll spend all my money of veggies and fruits that will most likely go bad before I get to eat them all" and that's money down the drain. The system needs to change; you can't expect people to become experts on nutrition just to prevent themselves from dying obese, diabetes-related death. You can try all you want to be healthy and still end up eating junk.
colafroggy 5 months ago
@colafroggy It's not that difficult to eat healthy, you goto the store, you buy enough for a few days and you eat. How hard is that? What kind of expert do you think you need to be to buy healthy? Are you that stupid?
ACLogikel 4 months ago
@ACLogikel There's no reason to be an asshole. Use some common sense - there's a problem in the system that not everyone has the fortune of being able to fix. Not everyone has enough money to buy healthy food. It costs more money to eat healthy than it does to eat junk, and when you're poor it isn't about health, it's about being able to pay for food as well as heat and running water. I eat pretty healthy and take care of myself, but I have enough empathy to know not everyone is as lucky as me.
colafroggy 4 months ago
@colafroggy That's the biggest myth in the food industry, I used to think the same way until I actually started eating right. Now I actually have money at the end of the month, before I was broke by mid month just like everyone else in the lower/middle class. Quit lying to yourself, you wouldn't fucking know because you don't eat healthy. A bag of apples cost like $3-4 .. that's about 12-15 apples... or you could get 3 or 4 dollar menu items. Yea, seems a lot cheaper to eat junk. :/
ACLogikel 4 months ago
@ACLogikel Wow, you're a real asshole, you know that? I DO eat healthy (I don't like apples though, just not a favorite). I'm not really talking about MYSELF, so you need to cut the shit. We're arguing for the same thing: people eating good food. You just happen to be an idiot. There are a lot of foods that are good for you that don't cost a lot, apples being one of them, but generally healthy food DOES tend to cost more. I do think people should still take better care of themselves, though.
colafroggy 4 months ago
@colafroggy You're so full of shit, damn straight I'm an asshole. We live in a world where boys wear tight pants, make up and act like girly bitches. We live in a world where idiots run their mouth without ever doing things for themselves because they have the internet.
You sir are full of shit, it does NOT cost more to eat right. Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, you can buy healthier and save money. Not my fault YOU'RE too stupid to figure that out. Enjoy your empty pockets and burgers.
ACLogikel 4 months ago
I have four decades of drinking soda and eating cheeseburgers with fries. I've been eating garbage my whole life. I've smoked cigarettes for two decades. How am I gonna reverse the damage it's already done? I'm scared pretty bad. I was in the hospital last month getting stitches and saw patients lying on beds. The doctors and nurses all sucked; bunch of dickheads... very depressing and sad place...
What the hell am I gonna do? I can't afford health insurance either. Good grief, I'm fucked.
MegaDyneSystemsExe 6 months ago
great on everything except pesticides.he really needs to look a bit deeper at the biochemistry in the body and how organic food is worse for the environment than properly used pesticides in the long run. the main problem with pesticides is misuse and their reputation from the nasty ones that were used in the past
eggiliciousness 8 months ago
Already more than 25,000 people have signed the letter calling on President Obama and Secretary Vilsack to halt the sale and planting of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa and sugar beets until more independent science can be conducted to evaluate this recently discovered threat to our farmers and our food supply. Unfortunately, the Obama administration is continuing to ignore the implications these new findings have in relation to our food supply. Fooddemocracydotcom
pkripper32 9 months ago
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foodparadisetv 10 months ago
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myndy86 11 months ago
Michael Pollan makes so much sense! IF ONLY others (politicians, the food industry, big business) were as lucid and sensible.....
NP1D305 1 year ago 2
Thank you for all your amazing hard work Michael...you are the best! Please keep it up:)
allyskimmer 1 year ago
i understand what he saying and i think he is right, generally speaking.
however, i dont think he ever able to proof what half of what he says.
atmark666 1 year ago
@atmark666
why do you think that everywhere where people eat processed foods etc. so many people die of cancer and heart disease? the numbers are drastically reduced in countries where people eat fresh foods grown by themselves or locals. thats what our bodies need, we didn't evolve to end up eating processed junk foods.
EtaCarinaez 1 year ago 4
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atmark666 1 year ago
This man is EXTREMELY intelligent!
wronganswermcfly 1 year ago 4
what i found ironic is that i got that book, in defense of food, in a wal mart...the haven of all things processed
ericneedsU 1 year ago
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We do have to change our subsidies and the farm bill!!
carolwalla 1 year ago
We do have to change our subsidies and the farm bill!!
carolwalla 1 year ago
Coke has got to be the worst. I don't know why anybody would drink that.
jennyp0101 1 year ago
Eat food...not products...
jqheller 1 year ago
why not go all organic vegan?
cherkas009 1 year ago
I hate how anti-science this guy. Bah. It's not that when you use science things go wrong... it's when business wants to sell/get-rid-of a product that contain little to no nutritional value and the consumer buys it...that we have a problem. The answer's simple. Demand better and hold what you will put in your body to a better standard or eat up shit they sell to you.
blaqueboy 1 year ago
@blaqueboy Exactly what kind of science are you referring to?
DigitalPraise7 1 year ago
Mmmmm, organic.
TheTopBloke 1 year ago
We all make choices. Some of us make excuses.
There is a ton of info at the library.
gpjsmith 1 year ago
It's so nice to see, even relatively rarely, someone having such a positive impact on the world.
VikingStreaker 2 years ago
In a nutshell Michael's Food Rules book is on point.... eat food, not too much, mostly plants. Done. Thanks Michael...we CAN do this!
zaksis5683 2 years ago 2
i love Michael Pollan.
KennilworthyWhisp 2 years ago 24
Thanks for posting. This is very interesting.
porolita22 2 years ago
How refreshing to hear the truth for once about our food! Thanks for posting this.
journeyman47 2 years ago
"edible food-like substances" good one! and sad to say, very accurate. I was reading the ingredients of a box of something or the other recently realised that i didn't know half the stuff in the list.
hauyn89 2 years ago 23
@hauyn89 yes. The general rule to follow is if you can't pronounce it don't eat it.
DigitalPraise7 1 year ago
This organic craze is easy if your single,or a yuppie no kids couple,but its not practical for most working families who work 12 hour days to then come home and make an organic dinner.
GEORGETOWN93 2 years ago
Stop having kids then buddy... life's hard when you're stupid.
modellaw 2 years ago
@modellaw Agreed.
romanosalvatore 2 years ago
They found the time to do that in you grandfather's time, buddy. Stop weatching the TV and cook with those children, they'll thank you later in life!
missnaturalfibers 2 years ago 2
@GEORGETOWN93 And thats why there is so many obese people with obesity genes and autism...For CONVENIENCE's sake...
romanosalvatore 2 years ago
I agree, dude. At least, not in a single-parent family where the mom works 12+ hours a night. I imagine it's easy in a nice, communal family. But in MOST cases, ...yeah, it's tough. That's just family cohesion though, really.
Earthlazarus 2 years ago
Your "incredible, Edible, EGG" is responsible for more pain and horror than anything you can imagine. The chickens are kept in small battery cages, crammed in so tightly they can never move their wings, or peck at a itch. These battery cages are stacked super high, so the chickens in the bottom cages either drown or swallow all the feces and urine that drops down. The chickens' beaks are cut off (and without anesthesia). There is nothing GOOD about eating -- much less BUYING -- an egg.
VeganaExPuta 2 years ago
if you read pollan's book, you would see that he argues the same about large farms. the whole idea is to support local sustainable farming.
mjettsf 2 years ago
Now you againsted peolple eating eggs,go live in the Amazon and leave us alone!
GEORGETOWN93 2 years ago
Monsanto - axes of evil
Watch "the world according to Monsanto" and reat the book " In foodture we trust" by Heinz. Gisel.
pabvision 2 years ago
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It's easy to go organic when your rich! Yuppie elitists snobs
GEORGETOWN93 2 years ago
You call these people snobs because they agree with the video or am I missing something?
johndela1 2 years ago
I try to by fresh and organic as much as I can,but realistically Pollan's appeal is for people to by all organic all the time.Trying to achieve all organic is difficult for the average Joe Sixpack.
GEORGETOWN93 2 years ago
If you read The Omnivore's Dilemma you'd know he advocates something more complex- it's more about sustainability, ethics, reduction of the "industrialization" of food in general. Read the chapter Big Organic to see his critique and commentar on the Organic Farming Industry as it stands now. Joe Sixpack can go to the farmer's market or the produce section of the grocery store. Pollack says in this video... the healthiest food doesn't advertise its healthiness- it's sitting quietly in produce
judd73 2 years ago 3
That's because the average Joe Sixpack has no idea what Mr. Pollan's talking about. It's not about just buying fresh and organic, it's about completely overhauling what one eats. It is highly possible to put back all the Lean Pockets, slabs of meat, and packaged cheese in favor of spinach, sweet potatoes, and grapefruit for not much more in price, if any difference. This is a lifestyle and culture debate more so than an availability debate. I've lived in real rural places; it can be done.
trapsmv9 2 years ago 3
It also helps to cook your food. I'm not rich, but I buy mostly organic and we cook. I bet I spend less per week than some "non-yuppie" who eats fast food every meal.
judd73 2 years ago 2
it's easy when you're not lazy!
sulljoh1 2 years ago
nice man, good advice
LLCoolPass 2 years ago
excellent
oceanbound222 2 years ago
I totally agree with this. There is ONE food I have bought since advertising and it IS the "incredible, Edible, EGG".
I don't eat trash, either!
annebeck58 2 years ago 2