Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma

For anyone (like me) who is interested in how food and eating figure into our greater experience of life (and/or our politics), Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma is a really important (and fascinating) book. Recently he gave a talk and answered a few questions about the book at Williams College. Here's the video of the talk, which is great but is mainly highlights of the book. If you have read the book and don't want to listen to the whole thing, skip to around the 51 minute mark to only hear the Q & A portion- there are some really great ideas in there, like how our spending on food relates to our spending on health care, for example.

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