On top of subsidies, ethanol producers want bailout money too
Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner
America's favorite food intellectual talks about ethanol, the carrot lobby, and secularizing food.
By Clara Jeffery
Mother Jones: What surprised you as you researched In Defense of Food?
Michael Pollan: One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's radar until very recently. Al Gore didn't talk about it at all; 25 to 33 percent of climate change gases can be traced to the food system. I was also surprised that those diseases that we take for granted as what will kill us — heart disease, cancer, diabetes — were virtually unknown 150 years ago, before we began eating this way.
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America's favorite food intellectual talks about ethanol, the carrot lobby, and secularizing food.
By Clara Jeffery
Mother Jones: What surprised you as you researched In Defense of Food?
Michael Pollan: One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's radar until very recently. Al Gore didn't talk about it at all; 25 to 33 percent of climate change gases can be traced to the food system. I was also surprised that those diseases that we take for granted as what will kill us — heart disease, cancer, diabetes — were virtually unknown 150 years ago, before we began eating this way.
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