So who cooks your food - a human or a corporation? There is a vast difference in the process between the two and you should think twice before warming up that microwave dinner or eating those perfectly-shaped, unblemished french fries.
Also mentioned in the video, 75% of our health care costs go toward treating preventible diseases based on diet - diabetes and obesity being the main two. He discusses what Bloomberg did and why during a Q&A at the end of the video.
None of this should be surprising, but it's sad to think that home-cooked meals are on the decline here and around the world. It's a 20 minute video, but it's worth the time to watch.
"Marketing creates anxieties...and solutions to those anxieties." Not always for the best for us or the planet.
[youtube:184p0le1][/youtube:184p0le1] How Cooking Can Change Your Life - Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an author, activist, journalist and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He mainly focuses on the industrial food chain with regards to his research. He emphasizes how cooking is one of the simplest and most important steps people can take to improve their family’s health, build communities, help fix our broken food system and perhaps most importantly, break our growing dependence on corporations. Michael Pollan is a food activist and you can find out more about him and his work by clicking here
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"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
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