{"id":776,"date":"2018-04-15T06:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T06:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=776"},"modified":"2018-04-15T06:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T06:46:48","slug":"michael-pollen-is-your-food-bad-or-boujee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/04\/15\/michael-pollen-is-your-food-bad-or-boujee\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Pollen: Is your food Bad or boujee?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Pollen’s book <\/span><\/span>In Defense of Food,<\/i><\/span><\/span> and Nutritionalism at large, have always had a bit of affluent or bougie undertones but the end of this book amplified that undertone to an overtone. \"\"The book ends with a third act that is all about getting over Nutritionalism and eating better and thus a healthier life.<\/span><\/span> T<\/span><\/span>he <\/span><\/span>\u201cPay more, Eat Less\u201d section <\/span><\/span>of the book<\/span><\/span> stood out in its lack of class consciousness and its affect on eating<\/span><\/span> because it really didn\u2019t examine why or why not people may choose to buy food in cheap large servings as opposed to smaller more high-quality food. Often people simply don’t have enough money to eat small high-quality meals, often, in fact, many people have to get the most calories out of their dollar as they can regardless of nutritional value. <\/span><\/span>Another one of Michael pollens rules <\/span><\/span>that I found troubling was \u201cDon\u2019t get your fuel from the same place your car does\u201d which I took to mean don\u2019t get your food at Gas Stations\/Mini Marts\/Convenience store. However, again this is a recommendation that fails to look at why so many people get their food from these locations. It may have been helpful to mention in the book about Food Deserts or areas of the country where you only have those types of places available to shop at. Not everyone can live near a Whole Foods or Trader <\/span><\/span>Joe’s. The book also didn’t touch on enough of the political and economic systems that dictate how people eat. Remarking on those systems and how people might change them in order to make their overall health better would have been a great edition.<\/span><\/span> The lack of class analysis really hurts the book and sticks out as a missed opportunity to present a more holistic view of food and eating.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Michael Pollen’s book In Defense of Food, and Nutritionalism at large, have always had a bit of affluent or bougie undertones but the end of this book amplified that undertone to an overtone. The book ends with a third act that is all about getting over Nutritionalism and eating better and thus a healthier life. The \u201cPay more, Eat Less\u201d… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrialized-food","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}