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  1. On Point: In Conversation with Mark Bittman

    Food writer, food thinker Mark Bittman is one of the big voices relentlessly pushing, cajoling, inviting, instructing to change the way America eats. For our health, for the big world.

    He’s done it himself. Vegan ‘til six is his new mantra. Basically, eat plants all day, enjoy what you like in the evening. Your heart and health will thank you, he says. And so will an environment not asked to carry the groaning load of the way we eat now.

    He’s funny. He’s smart. He’s a good cook. He’s thinking about your plate and the planet.

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  2. Is It Time For You To Go On An ‘Information Diet’? : NPR

    We’re used to thinking of "obesity" in physical terms — unhealthful weight that clogs our arteries and strains our hearts. But there’s also an obesity of information that clogs our eyes and our minds and our inboxes: unhealthful information deep-fried in our own preconceptions.

    In The Information Diet, open-source-Internet activist Clay Johnson makes the case for more "conscious consumption" of news and information. Johnson, the founder of Blue State Digital, which provided the online strategy for the 2008 Obama campaign, talks with NPR’s Scott Simon about ways to slim and stretch our minds.

    http://www.npr.org/2012/01/14/145101748/is-it-time-for-you-to-go-on-an-information-diet

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  3. How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick : NPR

    Physician Kevin Patterson has treated patients in the Arctic, in Kandahar and on remote Pacific Islands. He says that Western ideas and the effects of urbanization are making people everywhere in the world both fatter and sicker.

    http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/132745785/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick

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  4. The Past, Present, and Future of Food

    Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, continue their year-long public conversation about the future of organic food and agricultural sustainability. In front of a sold-out crowd at UC Berkeley on February 27, 2007, they cover some of the inconvenient truths about the world’s food systems. Mackey begins with a 45-minute presentation about unsustainable agricultural and food distribution practices, as well as Whole Foods’ efforts to improve them. (A note of caution: The audio lecture includes brief descriptions of animal cruelty and harsh human working conditions, and so may not be work- or family-safe.) He and Pollan then continue the discussion they started shortly after the publication of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and which continues on their respective Web logs.

    http://sic.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3234.html

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  5. The Things We Eat…

    Today we’re going to take a collective look at all the conflicting warnings and exhortations we hear about what we should and shouldn’t eat. It seems everyone has some pet theory that you shouldn’t drink milk, or you have to eat organic, or you shouldn’t eat "processed" foods, or you must only eat raw. There are always explanations for why this is: We didn’t "evolve" to eat this or that; it isn’t "natural" to eat something; our digestive systems weren’t meant to handle a certain thing. I know what you’re thinking: How is it possible to cover all those possible claims in a single Skeptoid episode? We’re going to do it by stepping back from all of the specific claims and specific foods, way back. We’re going to look at food as a whole, and study what it’s made of, what those bits are, see what we need and what we don’t. And then, with this as a foundation, we’ll have the tools to effectively examine any given eating philosophy.

    http://skeptoid.com/mobile/4216

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  6. 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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  7. 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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