The arguments of Michael Pollan are actually quite pointed and are able to convey his message quite well. Pollan’s opening words, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” seems like common sense to many of us and as we burrow further into the pages of Pollan’s ideas, the common sense just seems more and more logical. As a consumer of a lot of food I am fairly concerned with what types of things I am putting into my body but Pollan seems to bring too many outside thoughts to the front burner of my mind. Our, “food like substances,” that Pollan speaks of are something that I had never really thought about before. Pollan makes an excellent point about the foods that our grandparents and great grandparents ate in opposition to the things we, as Americans, eat today.
Our foods are no longer cooked in chicken fat and butter was totally out for a long time. At least it was in my house. Frying something is like a taboo in cooking these days because of the fact that the food you are frying is being cooked in its own natural fat. Pollan’s argument would support these old natural foods that our ancestors did just fine with over our manufactured, processed cooking oils that are supposed to be better for us. Why is the world so supportive of these, “food like substances”? A logical argument by Pollan would but the blame on the food-marketing companies, about thirty-two billion dollars strong, while it could also be the ever changing nutritional sciences that cannot make up their mind. Pollan is not the only person that thinks this either. Some take another point of view and are still against the food industry. Pollan seems to have done a good job in finding an argument and informing others of his ideas.
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