Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food

Michael Pollan’s latest book, ??In Defense of Food??, and it’s accompanying mantra “Eat Food. Not too Much. Mostly Plants” is all over the media these days, thanks to the success of his previous book ??The Omnivore’s Dilemma??.
NPR has a “succinct overview of the book’s principles”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17725932, along with an excerpt from the book and an extended interview.
This “story from the San Francisco Chronicle”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/09/FD3CU6AUG.DTL is also illuminating. My favorite quotes are
bq. “Our government is doing very little about obesity,” he said. “How did it get so controversial to say, ‘Eat less,’ to say, ‘Eat fruits and vegetables’?”
bq. He goes on: Rachel Carson, whose book, “The Silent Spring,” launched the modern environmental movement, “didn’t write the Clean Air Act. She started a conversation and then politicians take over. And that’s how it’s supposed to work. The question here (on farm policy reform) is: Where are the politicians?”
Incidentally, Pollan’s next planned projects are not about food.