Random book from our personal library:
📖 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
#pollan
🍔🥦 Oh, the suspense! A thousand words just to say: "Eat #food, not too much, mostly plants." Bravo, #Pollan, for turning Grandma's advice into a Nobel-worthy revelation. 📜✨ If only solving #world #hunger were as easy as solving writer's block with this groundbreaking verbosity. 🙄
https://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/unhappy-meals/ #sustainability #nutrition #writing #tips #HackerNews #ngated
How to #Change Your #Mind: The New Science of #Psychedelics - Michael #Pollan: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36613747-how-to-change-your-mind
Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/opinion/food-agriculture-factory-farms-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hU4.C3Vd.gG3uFpobphZd
#gift #agriculture #food #regenerativeagriculture #gore #pollan #beef #FactoryFarms
This article gets it exactly right.
🔥The US government-funded a ‘private social network’ which posts personal attacks on pesticide critics 🔥
In 2017, two United Nations experts called for a treaty to strictly #regulate #dangerous #pesticides, which they said were a “global human rights concern”, citing scientific research showing pesticides can cause cancers, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and other health problems.
Publicly, the pesticide industry’s lead trade association dubbed the recommendations “unfounded and sensational assertions”.
👉 In private, industry advocates have gone further.👈
⚠️Derogatory profiles of the two UN experts, Hilal Elver and Baskut Tuncak, are hosted on an online private portal for pesticide company employees and a range of influential allies.
Members can access a wide range of #personal #information about hundreds of individuals from around the world deemed a threat to industry interests,
including the US food writers Michael #Pollan and Mark #Bittman, the Indian environmentalist Vandana #Shiva and the Nigerian activist Nnimmo #Bassey.
🆘 Many profiles include #personal #details such as the names of family members, phone numbers, home addresses and even house values.
The profiling is part of an effort – that was
💥financed, in part, by #US #taxpayer #dollars
– to #downplay pesticide dangers, #discredit opponents and #undermine international policymaking, according to court records, emails and other documents obtained by the non-profit newsroom Lighthouse Reports
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/government-funded-social-network-attacking-pesticide-critics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@hyperlight #Pollan got sucked by his own popularity on the issue. Maybe he was not prepared to be the main voice backing the #psychedelic renaissance.
An anthropologist, a lawyer, and a neuroscientist’s response to Michael #Pollan:
"While Pollan’s points about ensuring safe use are important #harmreduction concepts, and it is true that people #selfmedicating without guidance or using #psilocybin #recreationally can be disorienting, it ignores the fact that, in the United States there is already a widespread culture of #psychedelic drug use that, for the most part, follows #reasonable guidelines already."
“You’ve said we’re not ready for #legalisation – and that’s quite a concerning view to have.”
#Pollan responds with a hint of irritation. “We disagree on the question of legalisation right now … I support #decriminalisation,” he says.
He argues that legalising a substance also means commercialising it. “I see #cannabis being promoted and pushed to people, as capitalism will do,” he says.
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