Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, one of my favorite books of all-time, presents a terrific open letter to the next President of the United States in NewYork Times Magazine.
First of all, if you’ve never read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, run, don’t walk to Amazon.com or even better, your local independent bookstore, and pick it up. It’s entertaining, thoughtful, and even life-changing depending on your point of view. (I stopped eating mammals, forever, after reading this book–there were other reasons for the decision too, but Pollan’s book was a big factor.)
When you’re done with that order, check out the NY Times Mag piece, which you can read here.
Pollan’s right: The next President needs to think long and hard about food, because what we eat and how we consume it ties into everything–including health care, energy independence, and climate change.
First and foremost: Consider cutting back on the amount of meat you eat. Money quote:
…one meatless day a week — a step that, if all Americans followed suit, would be the equivalent, in carbon saved, of taking 20 million midsize sedans off the road for a year.
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Michael Pollan’s Open Letter to the Next President
Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, one of my favorite books of all-time, presents a terrific open letter to the next President of the United States in NewYork Times Magazine.
First of all, if you’ve never read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”, run, don’t walk to Amazon.com or even better, your local independent bookstore, and pick it up. It’s entertaining, thoughtful, and even life-changing depending on your point of view. (I stopped eating mammals, forever, after reading this book–there were other reasons for the decision too, but Pollan’s book was a big factor.)
When you’re done with that order, check out the NY Times Mag piece, which you can read here.
Pollan’s right: The next President needs to think long and hard about food, because what we eat and how we consume it ties into everything–including health care, energy independence, and climate change.
First and foremost: Consider cutting back on the amount of meat you eat. Money quote:
This entry was posted on 13 October 2008 at 10:13 pm and is filed under Random commentary with tags Barack Obama, Climate change, Energy independence, Health care, John McCain, Michael Pollan, Politics, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Though there's always the temptation of revenge...Jonah. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.