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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