Food # 6 - Response to Pollan 1

Looking at the points that Pollan brings up in his book, the fact that we need help from "proffessionals" to tell us what we need to eat, that tells us that society has a huge problem. Theirs nothing wrong with someone giving you advice on better food choices, but the fact that we are going to experts to tell us the right and wrong foods like we have no idea whats bad for our bodies. People have no idea what to eat becuase of their bad food habits. Maybe eating fast foods for lunch or dinner daily, thats a problem. With McDonalds leading our main source of 'convient food' many other companies would simply have to follow suit to make money. Money is now the root source of pretty much anything in the United States. We would gather it and deem it more important than a pile of food.

Pollan's argument is not that we arent eating healthy foods, but we no longer know the roots that our ancestors did. The food that we constantly are shoving down are throats have lost its essence and have turend into a vast production for money and economy purposes. We no longer cook are our foods, the foods we "buy" are being processed and shipped out to us, taking the quality of good food out the picture. Many countries remember their roots. And Pollan does not care for the healthy issue. In fact, we can say that most people as of now, follow a diet plan, or become vegetarian to simply lose the weight.

Our choices have been made by those who've told us, and we've forgotten the actual choices given to us. Most people would follow the trail that everyone else has, of being in a diet. That meat, and grains are not so great for us. That all those things are just BAD for you. When it's not necessarily the truth. Yes. Most things are bad due to the chemicals and preservatives put on everything. Yes, meat is harder to process. But, it does contain things that matter to the body.Every piece of what we eat, like everything else; contains a bad and a good. Perhaps Pollan isn't exactly wrong. But he isn't right. We do need to be organized into a right direction.