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  1. Michael Pollan, “Deep Agriculture”

    The benefit of a reformed food system, besides better food, better environment and less climate shock, is better health and the savings of trillions of dollars. Four out of five chronic diseases are diet-related. Three quarters of medical spending goes to preventable chronic disease. Pollan says we cannot have a healthy population, without a healthy diet. The news is that we are learning that we cannot have a healthy diet without a healthy agriculture. And right now, farming is sick…

    http://blog.longnow.org/2009/05/06/michael-pollan-deep-agriculture/

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  2. Conversations With History: The Politics of Food

    Host Harry Kreisler welcomes writer Michael Pollan for a discussion of the agricultural industrial complex that dominates consumer choices about what to eat. He explores the origins, evolution and consequences of this system for the nation’s health and environment. He highlights the role of science, journalism, and politics in the development of a diet that emphasizes nutrition over food. Pollan also sketches a reform agenda and speculates on how a movement might change America’s eating habits. He also talks about science writing, the rewards of gardening, and how students might prepare for the future.

    http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=15882

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  3. Haggis; Good Food Wine Club; Michael Pollan’s Food Rules

    Michael Pollan has changed the way people talk and think about food. This week, he shares his food rules. Sommelier Stacie Hunt created a wine club available only to Good Food subscribers. She shares all the details. And Evan Kleiman heads to Burbank for a haggis Burns Supper with deep end diner, Eddie Lin.

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  4. The Business: The food industry and the next big crisis

    Audio (25min 30sec), 6 Apr 2010:

    We take an in depth look at the food industry in this week’s show. David Kessler and Richard Watts are in the studio to discuss the responsibilities of producers of ‘junk food’. Plus influential economist Carmen Reinhart on the next big crisis: government debt

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  5. The Omnivore’s Next Dilemma

    Michael Pollan at TED 2007:

    "What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant’s-eye view."

    http://www.ted.com/

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