more about "Michael Pollan on The Daily Show", posted with vodpod
Well worth the watch! Some key points:
- Cheap food isn’t really cheap. Pollan: “I think we need to recognize that cheap food has a very high cost, in terms of health, in terms of the environment. That cost is getting paid by other people, by the public health system.”
- Health care reform could be a game changer. Pollan: “Suddenly the health insurers will have an interest in your health that they don’t have now. … Right now the food industry creates patients for the health care industry and they have a sympathetic relationship, but that might change.”
From there, Jon Stewart gets into the aye, there’s the rub challenge of all this: “how do you legislate deliciousness?”
BTW, could the ads being served up with this clip on The Daily Show website be more ironic?
Weight Maven is written by Beth Mazur. Beth believes that obesity is more symptom than cause and that the real problem is our Western diet -- especially sugar, refined grains, and industrial oils. Beth writes about nutrition, ancestral health & food policy. And cats!
