In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

by Michael Pollan

“Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants,” says Pollan. Our industrialized Western diet has brought us cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and a multitude of chronic illnesses that can all be directly linked to “the rise of highly processed foods and refined grains; the use of chemicals to raise plants and animals in huge monocultures; the superabundance of cheap calories of sugar and fat produced by modern agriculture; and the narrowing of the biological diversity of the human diet to a tiny handful of staple crops, notably wheat, corn, and soy,” Pollan writes. He highlights how our food has lost nutritional value, but costs more; fats and sugar have been added to most packaged food products; how politically motivated the food industry has become; how intricately involved the government is in the food industry supporting Big Ag, the multi-national corporations, and industry insiders; how the government is subsidizing corn, soy, wheat and rice and now two-thirds of our daily caloric intake comes from corn, soy, wheat and rice; and how misguided science has emphasized “nutrients” over whole foods creating misconceptions and untruths about our food. 

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