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Michael Pollan

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Go See Food Inc.

By Scott ⋅ June 29, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Last night I saw Food Inc., the new documentary on the industrial food system, and I think it’s a movie absolutely everyone should see. It stylishly weaves together the whole (often sad) story of our food into a more approachable format than say, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, so that a much wider audience will know the high cost of cheap food.

Michael Pollan, Why Mow?

By Scott ⋅ July 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Michael Pollan’s book, Second Nature, includes a great piece entitled “Why Mow?”, where he explores the American lawn as “a metaphor for our skewed relationship with the land” and places it into historical and psychological context.
Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much.
The whole book (buy it) is [...]

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