'Stuffed and Starved'

I just read Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food and it rocked my world.

I feel like I already have a good sense of the world food system and America's agriculture/meat industry. I've read 'Fast Food Nation', seen Food Inc. and King Korn, and watched various interviews with experts from both sides. I've even had a few classes touch on the subject.

And yet...this book hit it home. I am consciously aware that I am a consumer perpetuating an unhealthy system...not just in terms of human health, but in economics, in psychology, in politics, in social circles, and environmentally. Nutritionism has been accepted as 'the way things are' as it has infiltrated America in the last 40 years. But I want things to change. I want to change.

Obviously I would recommend In Defense of Food wholeheartedly to anyone and everyone. Precisely because I think in every issue, people should have the facts and make decisions for themselves.

Next on my reading list is Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel. Contradicting, huh?

Think twice: "Today, when we produce more food than ever before, more than one in ten people on Earth are hungry. The hunger of 800 million happens at the same time as another historical first: that they are outnumbered by the one billion people on this planet who are overweight"

I'm being challenged. It's nice.

Currently listening to Beautiful People by Chris Brown

xoxo
Caitlin
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