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Don’t buy any food that needs advertising

June 9, 2014 by Peter Leave a Comment

Don't buy any food that needs advertising

Even though this video is 5 years old, it’s still very interesting and pertinent today. I think I first came across Michael Pollan in the documentary Fresh, and I find him easy to listen to and he appears to make a lot of sense. Here, in this interview at about the 10 minute mark (near the end), he makes the very interesting quote;

“Don’t buy any food you’ve ever seen advertised!”

Some other points are;

  • He gives a description of intensive pig farming
  • Genetically modified crops don’t raise productivity. They are good for expanding monocultures (also see Rapeseed invasion and monocultures)
  • Don’t buy products with high-fructose corn syrup
  • Avoid highly processed food
  • High-fructose corn syrup is just “a tool of food science”
  • Food companies have found that if we sweeten anything we’ll buy more of it
  • Then the quote I’ve already mentioned about not buying any food that needs advertising (find this just after the 10 minute mark)

Don’t buy any food that needs advertising

Related links – Don’t buy any food that needs advertising

  • The Secrets of Food Marketing
  • The Natural Effect

Filed Under: Nature, Society, Videos Tagged With: food, GMO, wellbeing

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