Michael Pollan's ny times op-ed about America's real health crisis.
"our success in bringing health care costs under control ultimately depends on whether Washington can summon the political will to take on and reform a second, even more powerful industry: the food industry."
If you're unfamiliar with his work, Michael Pollan is a captivating author with concrete, progressive yet rational ideas about the food industry. He has a few great books, my two favorite being The Omnivore's Dilemma (a natural history of 4 meals) and The Botany of Desire (where he looks at how 4 plants (marijuana, the potato, the tulip, and the apple) have interacted, co-evolved, and served human desires throughout history. Definitely check one of them out if you're looking for a book right now. He also tears Whole Foods and the organic food industry's asshole apart in The Omnivore's Dilemma, which rules. Take that yuppies.
He has a great article about growing poppies as well that I'll post on here when I find it if anyone is interested.
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I just saw him give a lecture a couple weeks ago...definitely well spoken and one of my favorite authors. He's a professor at Berkeley and rumor has it he takes select students out into the woods in search of special mushrooms...
that is fucking awesome you saw him speak. that guy is brilliant...i wish he had more pull in politics or at least more a voice in the media. one day, hopefully.
what are you up to these days anyways? are you going to be in SF for a while?
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