Michael Pollan: Cooked
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2014
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Not many people are so committed to their work that they would purchase a live steer just to learn something. But that's what Michael Pollan did-to see first hand how the beef we eat really makes its way from the food lot to the table. Through his bestselling books and Oscar-nominated documentary, Food, Inc., Pollan is in large part responsible for changing the way many of us think about, talk about and live with food. Join the author of the bestselling books Cooked, The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food and learn how cooking might just be the answer to family life, health issues and a broken food system.
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His description of slogging through "microwave night" reminds me of an "industry showcase" short regarding an all electric kitchen, attached to an old movie, from the early '50s I think. While I watched it, I kept thinking "How does any of this stuff make time in the kitchen EASIER?"
The whole purpose was to be short and concise. His mantra, Eat Food (Whole Food), Not much of it., Mostly Plants is just that. DO NOT EAT PROCESSED FOOD. EAT MOSTLY PLANTS. AND NOT MUCH OF ANYTHING. That says it all.
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Although I believe Pollan is genuine in his opinions, let's be clear, he's here to make money. And he's doing very well, he's earned it. But, he's not active in any political, social, or economic movements. I mean at all. I'm not anti capitalism, but that's really all he's doing, making money, nothing more. He's certainly in a unique position to try and drive change; change for betterment, and yet nothing.
I would say educating people via videos like this is doing a great public service! Aligning with politics would defeat the purpose.
jiggerblossom A fair perspective.
+Joseph1NJ I agree with jigger. He is only one man, famous and (potentially) rich as he may be. Informing the public on the brutality of feed lots, the commercialism in processed foods and the science and reasoning behind why our ancestors (and previous generations of family) prepared food the way they did has more benefit to it than taking up someone else's flag and marching ahead. The public needs to be informed on each of these subjects so they can realize their own power and potential in changing the way we eat. The more people that start cooking their own food, buying unprocessed food, antibiotic free food, etc. the more power will be behind the people as shown in their buying power. If we show these corporations our intent, and our population is big enough, that is the source for major change. Not a handful (I say handful in comparison to the total population) of people shouting for change right now.
Jenny Livingston All fair statements. Disappointing us most again is the national (old) media. If it wasn't for RUclips, I would've never heard of him. Once again the responsibility is on us, the consumer, to drive change. I just wish that the many public sector agencies that we the public pay for on an ongoing basis would at least give the subject an ear. I mean, look how long it took to ban trans fats. A man made substance known with broad consensus in the medical community to be deleterious to human health for decades... and yet it'll still be around until 2018! Let's start simple. How hard would it be to make antibiotic use illegal in all livestock? Politics and money... does it ever change? Sorry for the rhetorical question
By his own admission, he knows nothing about cooking, and doesn't seem to have any qualifications. He is all over cooking and says nothing about the health benefits of raw food. He is a plant, trying to get people away from raw fruit and leafy veg, the best forms of food for humans. He blatantly lies about living on raw food, I know, I've been doing it for years, and I eat LESS than before. Someone payed for him to get this video out to you, I'm guessing the Meat industry and or the Cancer industry.