How Cooking Can Change Your Life

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The RSA May 30, 2013

This is an unedited version of the talk that Michael Pollan did at the RSA yesterday. Unfortunately, due to technical problems the very beginning of the live stream was missed but the usual edited video of our event will be available in a couple of weeks.

Renowned activist and author Michael Pollan argues that cooking is one of the simplest and most important steps people can take to improve their family’s health, build communities, fix our broken food system, and break our growing dependence on corporations.

Chaired by Tim Lang, professor of Food Policy at City University London.

Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q&A: http://www.thersa.org/__data/assets/f…

King Corn (2007)

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Aaron Woolf

Behind America’s dollar hamburgers and 72-ounce sodas is a key ingredient that quietly fuels our fast-food nation: corn. In KING CORN, recent college graduates Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis leave the east coast for rural Iowa, where they decide to grow an acre of the nation’s most powerful crop.

Michael Pollan on “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual” + Food, Inc.

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Democracy Now!
Feb. 8, 2010

Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food, discusses the link between healthcare and diet, the dangers of processed foods, the power of the meat industry lobby, the “nutritional-industrial complex,” the impact industrial agriculture has on global warming, and his sixty-four rules for eating. “The markets are full of what I call edible food-like substances that you have to avoid,” says Michael Pollan. “So a lot of the rules are to help you, you know, navigate that now very treacherous landscape of the American supermarket.” Today we air an excerpt of the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc. and then spend the rest of the show with Michael Pollan. [includes rush transcript]

http://media.libsyn.com/media/democracynow/dn2010-0208-1.mp3

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In Defense of Food – A Review by Guadamour

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August 8, 2009

In his latest book, In Defense of Food–An Eater’s Manifesto (The Penguin Press 2009), Michael Pollan, the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Bounty of Desire, and other books, argues for the eating of whole foods preferably grown, cooked and eaten in a social setting with others.

Pollan’s book is very important to the current debate on healthcare reform because it convincing shows how most chronic diseases, the diseases that are swamping the health care system, are diet related and that it makes economic sense to spend a little more money on eating real organically grown food than spending trillions on preventable diseases.

Bill Moyers Journal: Hunger in America with Michael Pollan + An American Abroad

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Bill Moyers Journal
November 28, 2008

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Michael Pollan

Bill Moyers sits down with Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley, to discuss what direction the U.S. should pursue in the often-overlooked question of food policy. Pollan is author of IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: AN EATER’S MANIFESTO.