Waylon Lewis: My interview with Michael Pollan re: how to communicate "green" to the masses, why he eats meat, GMOs, cancer, diet, Swine Flu, Michelle Obama's organic garden.

By Waylon Lewis, Huffington Post

A few weeks back I got to interview one of my idols (as I mention in the first moments of the interview)--Michael Pollan. Michael, along with Alice Waters and a few thousand farmers and farmers' markets, has led a growing movement to reclaim our food from the growing danger of agribusiness. It's simple, really: eat food, not too much, mostly plants as Pollan puts it in his N.Y. Times best-selling books Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. Cook more. Buy less processed food (food with less than five ingredients).

Even if your idea of being a foodie is, like me, putting together some organic veggie nachos, you'll dig how eloquently, warmly and straightforwardly Michael Pollan communicates to the masses. For while I, and many others, struggle to express...