'Half a Pound of Crap' In Daily American Diet - Mark Bittman

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/01/12/Mark_Bittman_Food_Matters

Food writer Mark Bittman offers stunning statistics on how many pounds of animal products, plants, and junk food the average American consumes everyday.

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Mark Bittman talks about Food Matters: A Guide To Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes.

From the award-winning guru of culinary simplicity and author of the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes a plan for responsible eating that's as good for the planet as it is for the waistline -- Book Passage

Mark Bittman is a bestselling cookbook author, journalist and television personality.

Although Mark Bittman never formally trained as a chef, his pursuits as a curious and tenacious foodie have made him a casual culinary master. His weekly New York Times food column, The Minimalist, meshes accessible and inexpensive ingredients with "anyone-can" cooking techniques to produce exceedingly delicious dishes.

Bittman's funny, friendly attitude and trademark informal approach to food-craft extend to his blockbuster TV programs (which retain delays and mishaps that other producers would edit out), his blog, Bitten, and ambitious cookbooks, like How to Cook Everything and The Best Recipes in the World.

After a decade as the "Minimalist," Bittman has emerged a respected spokesperson on all things edible: He's concerned about the ecological and health impacts of our modern diet, which he characterizes as overwhelmingly meat-centered and hooked on fast food. His criticism has the world listening: His revolutionary How to Cook Everything Vegetarian is a bestseller, and his memorable talk at the 2007 EG Conference (available now on TED.com) delivered a stinging condemnation of the way we eat now. A subsequent New York Times article pursued the same argument.

Bittman's new book Food Matters explores the link between our eating habits and the environment, offering an accessible plan for a planet-friendly diet.

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[Andy94Bonner]

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[kmarie1351]

Bittman isn't arguing for vegetarianism. Food Matters contains lots of recipes with meat in them. He's just saying that it's not healthy for our bodies or for the planet to eat so many animal products.

[StevenBee2]

Why are people over 40 supposed to drink 4 glasses of milk a day? Because of the calcium? There are much better sources of calcium than milk, particularly if that milk is taking up 1/2 - 2/3 of the bulk of your daily diet!

[mongol63]

@jonman701 Thumbs up

[MillyVanillification]

@urpmi The milk in the USA has a lot of pus in it due to the use of somatotropin (hormone). Hormones are beefing up the udder which leads to mastitis. Mastitis is fought against with - again the benefit goes to the pharmaeutical industry - antibiotics. So either you drink pus or antibiotics or both. But it doesn't matter what you drink, because only profits matter. Cheers!

[MillyVanillification]

He's got the point. To produce one pound of meat you have to produce 25 pounds of wheat and spend 30 gallons of water. Eating meat is what I'd call wasting ressources. It's like being in a restaurant with 24 people and you eating a steak while the others have nothing to eat at all. If you would switch to plants, all people would have enough to eat. And to you and the others would even have half a gallon of water to drink.

[TheMslara26]

i totally believe we consume too much crap.