I read it and his "In Defense of Food" at the end of last year, and I've radically changed my diet. I've actually gotten almost all processed foods out of my house, with the exception of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Everyon'e gotta have one viceOriginally Posted by Publisher's Weekly Review
He starts with a McDonald's lunch, which he and his family gobble up in their car. Surprise: the origin of this meal is a cornfield in Iowa. Corn feeds the steer that turns into the burgers, becomes the oil that cooks the fries and the syrup that sweetens the shakes and the sodas, and makes up 13 of the 38 ingredients (yikes) in the Chicken McNuggets.Indeed, one of the many eye-openers in the book is the prevalence of corn in the American diet; of the 45,000 items in a supermarket, more than a quarter contain corn. Pollan meditates on the freakishly protean nature of the corn plant and looks at how the food industry has exploited it, to the detriment of everyone from farmers to fat-and-getting-fatter Americans. Besides Stephen King, few other writers have made a corn field seem so sinister.
Yes I saw that show a few weeks ago and was totally grossed out by it. Unfortunately I lost my cat Flip right in the middle of the tainted food scandal to kidney failure. However because of his age, the vet would never say on way or other whether the food was issue or not. It really bothers me to think that something I may have been feeding him made him sick.Originally Posted by Yosemite
I have no idea what channel my hubby had left the TV on last night, but there was a show on pet foods and the pet food scandal of a couple years ago.
One vet cooked up strips of old boots, wood chips and crank shaft oil, sent it away for testing and it passed the current government requirements for insertion into pet food.
The one vet they focused the most on was one who used to work for a large pet food manufacturer and has since quit and is trying to get governments to do more for the regulations regarding pet food. Apparently, the pet food industries are pretty much regulating themselves - not good!
This vet also said that most vets know next to nothing about nutrition - refreshing honesty there. She also said that cats need MEAT not grains and that even reading labels can be misleading. She said meat could be listed first and we would assume the food has more meat than grains, but if there were 3 or 4 different types of grains in smaller portions than the meat, when added together the grains would far outstrip the amount of meat.
It was a great show and I'm truly sorry I didn't get the information re channel, etc. but I was watching it in between chores as well.
I think we'll find that when folks start getting those processed foods out of their homes and mouths, we'll see fewer obese people as well.Originally Posted by rahma
Everything is loaded with corn. If you have time, pick up "Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollen. It follows 4 meals from the very beginning to consumption:
I read it and his "In Defense of Food" at the end of last year, and I've radically changed my diet. I've actually gotten almost all processed foods out of my house, with the exception of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Everyon'e gotta have one vice
That is an excellent book.Originally Posted by rahma
Everything is loaded with corn. If you have time, pick up "Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollen. It follows 4 meals from the very beginning to consumption