We live in a very fast pace world and free time is often hard to come by. Most Americans are working up to 40 hours a week if not more. The process of purchasing and cooking a healthy whole foods meal as Michael Pollan the author of In Defense of Food suggests takes both time and labor. It is much… Read more »
Michael Pollan introduces the concept of “nutritionalism,” in his book In Defense of Food. Nutritionalism is the ideology of placing value on the individual nutrients of food vs. focusing on the food themselves. This modern wave of thinking has allowed the populous to be more nutritionally conscious, but also opened a can of new concerns. When we think about food… Read more »
Michael Pollan’s concept and advice to “just eat food” is an interesting claim to make, as the average person who isn’t as conscious or educated on what they are putting into their bodies may think that this is an obvious and pointless statement. What he means by this is that it is important that what are consuming on a daily… Read more »
In Julie Guthman’s article The Food Police, Guthman critiques Michael Pollan and other nutritionists for establishing a discourse that fat shames obese people and blames obese people for being obese. Indeed, Pollan does not recognize the complexity of the obesity epidemic. Many people would love to eat natural produce, but do not have the finances to achieve this. However, Guthman… Read more »
My new word and my new question: Nutritionism. How do I find what I need to eat I’ll be sharing my most recent take away assignment from class, far up to this point from , there have been a lot of interesting things that open up my mind to the way we consume our food. . This week, the term… Read more »
When did eating become so difficult? There is a dizzying amount of conflicting information about food. The result is a multitude diets like: keto, gluten-free, low-fat, paleo, high-protein and liquid to name a few. Pollan attempts to cut through the confusion with his book In Defense of Food. Pollon exhorts a simple answer to my food question “Eat food. Not… Read more »
I work at a bar, so I see how much the sugary drink tax affects consumers and business. We have to charge an extra $1 when people want a chaser for a shot. A cup of pineapple juice is $4 and a vodka redbull will be $9 (redbull on its own is $5!). Now, alcohol and drinking culture is… Read more »
This week’s reading of Brown’s Full Planet Empty Plate I found to be very eye opening. Not only is Brown a phenomenal writer, he brings into perspective the people that are being destroyed by our eating behaviors instead of just focusing on what the industry does to our bodies. I think we as readers tend to sometimes get caught up… Read more »
There are many factors that limit our food choices: what we eat does not always reflect what we wish we could eat. Every person is limited in what they eat, most often because of the cost of living. As college students in Seattle we are forced to pay rent in a city with skyrocketing rates, we are forced to pay… Read more »
Pollan’s book, while providing very tangible and well researched explanations about the shift in dominant food paradigms and practices across the world, is fundamentally flawed in one way: its applicability. Specifically, In Defence of Food, in my opinion, has blind spots at the intersection of nutritionism and class/economic status, and is subsequently racially flawed also. In Part III of the… Read more »