Stories by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan's New 'Food Rules': 64 Easy Steps to Better Health

Pollan's new book is a set of straightforward, memorable, everyday rules for eating that aim to nudge people onto a healthier and happier path.
Posted on Jan 11, 2010, Source: AlterNet

Michael Pollan: Health Reform Will Make Americans Less Fat

Look out fast food; when insurance companies can't dump the sick, they will have to strongly support healthy diets, or lose money.
Posted on Sep 14, 2009, Source: The New York Times

Michael Pollan: People Are Finally Talking About Food, and You Can Thank Wendell Berry for That

Wendell Berry's now-famous formulation, "eating is an agricultural act" -- is perhaps his signal contribution to the rethinking of food and farming under way today.
Posted on Sep 10, 2009, Source: The Nation

Dear Mr. Next President -- Food, Food, Food

We must move into the post-oil era to improve the health of the American people and to mitigate climate change.
Posted on Oct 14, 2008, Source: The New York Times

Exporting Cheap Corn and Ruin

Cheap American corn is wreaking biological and social havoc in Mexico. Unable to compete with subsidized American farmers, Mexicans are leaving their land to join the swelling pools of Mexico's unemployed.
Posted on May 1, 2004, Source: Prairie Writers Circle