Talk:Michael Pollan

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Template:Critique on Nutritionism?

Could someone explain Pollan's beef (pardon the pun) with Nutritionism?67.159.67.164 (talk) 21:03, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Editors: Be advised this article was edited by JMBleicher as part of a class project. [1]. The edits represented the opinions of Michael Pollan as if they were factual, and as a result represent Pollan's points of view as facts. There is not a general scientific that "three principal food chains ... sustain American eaters," as JMBleicher declares. It is not JMBleicher's obligation to correct the existing views already embedded in the text he edited -- I took care of that for him. Since this is now part of a Harvard class project, it is noteworthy that the project editor failed to correct underlying bias in the text he edited. Marasandra 07:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• Who cares whether this is a "class project" or not? What relevance does Harvard students editing it have? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.131.57 (talk) 07:14, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

From the article: "He blames those who set the rules (i.e., politicians in Washington, D.C., bureaucrats at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Wall Street capitalists, and agricultural conglomerates like Archer Daniels Midland) for what he calls a destructive and precarious agricultural system that has wrought havoc upon the diet, nutrition and well being of Americans." It seems that in The Omnivore's Dilemma the blaming of these people "who set the rules", especially with the "Wall Street capitalists" is more of Joel Salatin's viewpoint than Pollan's. Pollan does agree with a great deal of what Salatin says, but I feel that the sentence currently in the article is not completely accurate. Any suggestions on imporvements? 75.23.118.177 22:18, 23 August 2007 (UTC)