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<DIV class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> Kozer4@aol.com [<SPAN class=correction id="">mailto</SPAN>:Kozer4@aol.com] <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, June 28, 2006 8:45 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> comfood@elist.tufts.edu<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Today's <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State> Post Front-page Food Section</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial color=black size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Q& A | Michael <SPAN class=correction id="">Pollan</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG><B><FONT face=Arial color=black size=5><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Think Global, Eat Local<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Wednesday, June 28, 2006; <SPAN class=correction id="">F01</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You're standing in the supermarket contemplating a nice warm-weather meal -- maybe grilled fish or chicken and salad. But you worry: Is there any local or organic produce, or does that even matter? Is the salmon wild, or does it come from those fish farms that you hear might not be clean? Were the chickens raised in crowded cages and fed yellow dye? And what about the <SPAN class=correction id="">margarines</SPAN>, cookies and crackers that used to have all those trans fats, but you're not totally sure what trans fats are and why they're bad for you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> these days, deciding what to eat is a real problem, says writer Michael <SPAN class=correction id="">Pollan</SPAN>. An abundance of foods tempts us. <SPAN class=correction id="">Multimillion-dollar</SPAN> food marketing and the latest scientific finds (or fads) muddle our thinking. And we don't have centuries of traditional eating patterns to help guide our choices. In the midst of that confusion, we've become heavier and less healthy every year.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To figure out guidelines for what we should eat, <SPAN class=correction id="">Pollan</SPAN> set out on a five-year journey to learn more about where the foods we eat come from and just how safe they are. The result is his new "The <SPAN class=correction id="">Omnivore's</SPAN> Dilemma" (Penguin Press, $26.95). Staff writer Judith <SPAN class=correction id="">Weinraub</SPAN> recently asked <SPAN class=correction id="">Pollan</SPAN> to interpret some of his findings.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Your initial question was "what should we eat?" How did you go about your research?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Before I could figure that out, I had to know what I was eating. So I did the food detective work to trace what was on my plate.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You went all over the country</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">tracking American food -- to a cornfield in <st1:State w:st="on">Iowa</st1:State>, a <SPAN class=correction id="">feedlot</SPAN> in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kansas</st1:place></st1:State>, organic farms, McDonald's. You even hunted, gathered and grew food for a single meal. Was there anything in particular that surprised you?</SPAN></I><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">All that food, that seeming cornucopia of variety, kept taking me back to the cornfield in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iowa</st1:place></st1:State>. So I followed a bushel of corn to see what you can make from it. I had no idea how much of our industrial system was based on corn, and turning corn into meat and processed food.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What are the implications of having such a corn-based diet?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Environmentally, it's dangerous to eat so much of one thing. Nature teaches us not to put all our eggs in one basket. Think of the Irish and the potato famine [in the 1840s]. One day a blight attacked their potato crop, and a million people died. The only way to keep a food monoculture going is with lots of chemicals -- they need more pesticides and fertilizer than mixed-cropped farms.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The other side of it is our health. We need a great variety of food. If we don't get it, we're not getting what we need.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You're very critical of the foods made from corn, and processed foods in general. Why?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Corn products are not fresh food. To make them, you're using corn as an industrial raw material.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Did researching the book make you reevaluate your diet?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I avoid foods with more than five ingredients on the label, and I eat as few processed foods as I can -- in particular, anything made with high-fructose corn syrup. It's not evil, but it's a marker of a highly processed food.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You don't eat fast foods now. Did you ever?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I had a kid who liked to go to McDonald's. What turned me off was visiting a <SPAN class=correction id="">feedlot</SPAN> and spending time with a steer through his life. I saw how they live and how we make them into meat. Once you've seen that, it changes the way you eat. And my talking about it turned my son off fast foods.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Do you eat any meat now?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I don't eat any industrial meat. I only eat beef that's been fed grass from start to finish.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What about chickens?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I do tend to buy organic chickens, but they don't do a lot of free-ranging. And when I can, I buy <SPAN class=correction id="">pasteurized</SPAN> chickens and eggs.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What about farmed fish?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Salmon are not sustainable. But shellfish are fine. Generally they purify water rather than making it filthy.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Which is more important: buying locally made or grown foods or organic foods?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Given the choice, buy local over organic. Often local food is organic, but farmers may not have the capital to deal with all the paperwork involved.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But I do buy organic chickens because they aren't fed antibiotics or growth hormones. And I buy organic milk -- but I look for milk from cows that have been grass-fed. Sometimes you can find that information on the label.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Doesn't organic food often cost more?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It's a crime that only the fairly affluent in this country can afford to eat healthy food. But the problem is not that that food is so expensive. It's that industrial food is so cheap. And the real cost is being charged to the public health. If we spent more on healthier food, my guess is we could spend a lot less on health care.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So what's an ordinary supermarket shopper to do?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Shop somewhere else. Get out of the supermarket and go to farmers markets, where the food is fresh, tastes better, is more nutritious, and you know it hasn't been processed. It forces you to be a non-industrial eater, and your children learn that carrots are not industrially <SPAN class=correction id="">lathed</SPAN> little bullets.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">But buying everything at farmers markets isn't realistic for most people. So what specific advice can you give supermarket shoppers?</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Read the labels.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=black size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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