Pollan Op-Ed in The Times

I know many of you share my interest in Michael Pollan’s perspective on food issues. He has an Op-Ed this week in The New York Times on Big Food vs. Big Insurance, arguing that we won’t be able to solve the health care crisis in this country until we solve the health crisis in this country, which is related to our unhealthy eating habits. As he writes,

passing a health care reform bill, no matter how ambitious, is only the first step in solving our health care crisis. To keep from bankrupting ourselves, we will then have to get to work on improving our health — which means going to work on the American way of eating.

And he’s hopeful, too:

When health insurers can no longer evade much of the cost of treating the collateral damage of the American diet, the movement to reform the food system — everything from farm policy to food marketing and school lunches — will acquire a powerful and wealthy ally, something it hasn’t really ever had before.