Pollan: Don't buy food you've seen advertised
Monsanto, swine flu, Lay's claim to be local, Michelle Obama's organic garden, school lunch programs and more. This video has Michael Pollan weighing in on a lot of important issues.
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HFCS is biologically and structurally different from sucrose. HFCS is a mixture of two simple sugars: glucose and fructose. Sucrose is a disaccharide--a compound composed of glucose and fructose chemically bonded to each other. Sucrose must be digested; HFCS is not. So as soon as the HFCS hits the stomach, the bloodstream receives a double whammy of glucose and fructose which the pancreas and liver must deal with right away. With sucrose, the process happens over a longer period of.... More
I'm all for localism and local food and I like reading Pollan's stuff, but this is just plain silly. It would in fact rule out some fantastic local producers in our area -- who have advertised, which is they way we found out about them! What a mindlessly elitist rule. How about this? Use common sense. Get your food fresh (and as much as you can from your own backyard). And drop the elitist nonsense.
I think that Pollan's comment about not buying anything that's been advertised needs to be taken in context. He's just been asked about the marketers who take his rules and bend them so he's come up with a rule that the marketers can't bend (at least he can't see how, but you never know with marketers)
Here's his comment in context taken from the Democracy Now transcript:
"you just can’t underestimate their [the marketers] ability turn any critique into a way to sell.... More
I love Michael Pollan. It's up to us to spread the word...
But the marketers keep foiling him! The reality is that people don't want to leave their processed food behind...but what has changed is that they want the *illusion* that they're doing better. Farmers' Markets may save us....people meet farmers & begin to understand where food comes from....this is good stuff.
