Michael Pollan - Food Rules for Healthy People and Planet

Award-winning food writer Michael Pollan shows how we can become more mindful of what we eat, and how we can make food choices that are better for ourselves and our environment

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[creativescientist]

If we are suffering from approximately 10% unemployment (in the United States) and only less than 1% of our population is producing our food, isn't it better to employ some of these people to grow and producer our food and quit subsiding these 1% producers?

[JobLeonard]

@T3mporal: if anything this guy is pro-science. He's not falling in the fallacy of "science is wrong because it's changing", he's saying nutritional science isn't ready for drawing the conclusions we're drawing right now.

[jammatoonarmy]

animal fats and proteins have been shown to be the cause for almost every degenerative disease going. If you want health and vitality, eat a high carbohydrate, low fat plant based diet!

[ALPHAandOMEGA44]

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

that is the 2nd plank of the communist manifesto.

Why are we subsidizing sugar and in new york putting a heavy tax on it.

[ALPHAandOMEGA44]

Did you know the 10 planks of communism are already outlined in the US

[Matt Woodford]

Just remember not to get rid of social programs unless and until you can get rid of subsidies to agribiz, Big Pharma and the rest. Individual entrepreneurs will not have a fair chance otherwise.

[Andrew Lawrence]

I completely agree with the way you’re thinking about the juxtaposition between disparity and production. The next questions follow then, though: Do we want to condemn people to making below a living wage for backbreaking now industrialized work that exposes them to insane amounts of pesticides and other biochemicals? Wouldn’t a better solution be to incentivize a more sustainable system of food production to begin with? Surely this would attract a new generation of farmers in and of itself.

[Unfuckers]

sooooooooooo, what about land, resources, knowledge, machinery? We can just ignore that?

damn that post was 2 years ago,lol.

[dance4joy7@hotmail.com Seattle]

These videos are tremendously helpful to me, as I am trying to learn everything I can about good nutrition. Thanks so much!

[Flashlight Mercury]

I've always been told I'm allergic to soy. However, I suspect I'm only allergic to soy produced in the U.S.

[eliterminator00]

I don't think that we need to spend more money on food in order to improve its quality. There's clearly huge profits that can and are being made in the food industry. If demand was to change over to more whole/organic foods, then businesses would shift over in response. However, government subsidies for certain food crops have made modern processed foods very profitable and I think that's probably making it much more difficult for the industry to shift in any way.