Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma

The UC Davis Mondavi Center presents bestselling author and UC Berkeley journalism professor Michael Pollan. He explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Series: Mondavi Center Presents [2/2007] [Humanities] [Show ID: 12176]

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[cbdoobie]

@riccer24

It's taken 10,000 years since the advent of agriculture, for our bodies to return to it's stature. If you look at the human fossil record, one can see the stunted growth and malnutrition that humans endured during the supposed human transcendence from animal to human, much like we're experiencing in our health with regards to our consumption of industrial food.

[AngryTypingGuy27]

Uh....um.....every ten seconds...

[antioxidants87]

He blames the production of high fructose corn syrup on corn while man "manipulated" sugars with "synthetic" enzymes into a poisonous sugar?

If man was a true omnivore; we would never develop hyperlipidemia(high blood fat). Humans are frugivores.

[clickidyclack]

The only thing I disagree with him is, around @18:00 mark when he stated that once people become aware of how unsustainable their eating habits are, then they will stop eating that way...or something to that effect.

I don't have that much faith in people...sorry. They will still eat what ever is easiest to gobble down the fastest, whatever is advertised to them, and whatever attracts their taste buds

[BevAlbi]

@jking21701 Well said!

[kmacaa]

It's more about the content in between the Uh's. Everybody needs time to regroup their thoughts. The only difference between him and, let's say, a republican candidate is that he actually says meaningful things in between brief pauses.

[Randomperson64]

@AngryTypingGuy27 He needs toastmasters

[shreddedreams]

@AngryTypingGuy27 Mate, shutup and grow up.

[Right3ousMan]

Wow these top comments are terrible. How about instead of talking about medial presentation flaws or telling us about how you are in the top 1% income and are somehow immune from this, we talk about the points Pollan is trying to get across about how our current american industrial food system is totally fucked. Its unhealthy, unsustainable, killing our soils rivers and polluting our air, and has put a veil between us and our food. Do you know where your chicken nuggets come from? EAT LOCALLY