My monthly "Green" read

I just finished reading In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto by Michael Pollan and I think you can get some quick insight by just reading the Introduction. My top five favorite qoutes from the book were:

#1. "Dont' get your fuel from the same place your car does." (p.192)

#2. " They point out that in 1980 less than 10 percent of Americans owned a microwave; by 1999 that figure had reached 83 percent of households. As technology reduces the time cost of food, we tend to eat more of it." (p.187)

#3. "Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." (p.148)

#4. "We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating." (p.9)

#5. "As long as the new fake foods were engineered to be nutrionally equivalent to the real article, they could no longer be considered fake." (p.36)

This book overall allows for a consumers voice and provides you with some food for thought.