Stories by Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan: How Change Is Going to Come in the Food System

Posted on Sep 16, 2011, Source: The Nation

As the food movement has discovered, winning over the media, or even the president, is not enough.

Michael Pollan: What Do Marijuana and Catnip Have in Common?

Posted on Oct 16, 2010, Source: Park Street Press

In a wide-ranging interview from a new book on pot, Pollan says, 'The idea that the government can tell you what you can grow in your garden strikes me in a visceral way as wrong.'

Michael Pollan: The Mighty Rise of the Food Revolution

Posted on Jul 29, 2010, Source: New York Review of Books

Until very recently, food was invisible as a political issue. Something is stirring. Pollan reviews five books that address the heart of the food movement.

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

Posted on Jan 11, 2010, Source: AlterNet

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.

Michael Pollan: Health Reform Will Make Americans Less Fat

Posted on Sep 14, 2009, Source: The New York Times

Look out fast food; when insurance companies can't dump the sick, they will have to strongly support healthy diets, or lose money.

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

Posted on Sep 10, 2009, Source: The Nation

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.

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

Posted on Oct 14, 2008, Source: The New York Times

We must move into the post-oil era to improve the health of the American people and to mitigate climate change.

Exporting Cheap Corn and Ruin

Posted on May 1, 2004, Source: Prairie Writers Circle

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.