Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan (born 1955) is an American journalist, author, and food activist. A 2006 New York Times review of his book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. described him as a "liberal foodie intellectual"[1]. He has also been accused of "promoting 'denialist' anti-GMO junk science" by Forbes as well as being duplicitous on his anti-GMO stance, appearing in anti-GMO documentaries and arguing against GMOs, yet when asked direct questions of their safety he usually agrees with the scientific consensus that they are safe, usually not in the same interview.[2] His main argument against GMOs is that they do not really improve the regular diet but contribute to an already broken food industry, while they are just as bad to eat as anything else produced in excess[3].

In a 2007 essay he wrote for the New York Times, Pollan proffered his now famous simple line of nutritional advice: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."[4] While offering up this seemingly profound advice, the rest of the article was couched in anti-science rhetoric. Pollan essentially claims that organic food is the only real "food" while blatantly accusing all nutritional scientists of being in the pocket of corporations and "flip flopping" on nutritional advice.

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