In a shocking turn of events, instead of delivering a over-sexualized and unnecessarily dramatic article about some great raw vegetable while hypocritically bashing rawist vegans, I’m going to let someone else lecture you. Michael Pollan wrote the very popular The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and he was Youtubed by someone at a recent Authors @ Google lecture series. It is, like, 37 minutes of him talking before Q&A – a bit longer than the normal internettention span. However, if you can get away with pissing 37 minutes away at work without getting caught, check this shit out. It’s embedded below.

Some of my favorite quotes:

(referring to American eating culture) Orthorexia – An unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

We have as many neurons in our digestive system as we do in our spinal column. (Nate sez: That’s fucking amazing, so it’s true that I think with my stomach!)

It’s 100,000 years ago you’re walking along in your band of humans, somewhere in a state of nature somebody bends down, picks up a mushroom, tastes it, keels over and dies. Someone in the group says, “We’ve got to remember this – we do have the mnemonic system that we’re using right now” …And so they named that mushroom the Death Cap.

Culture is cuisine.

Shop the perimeter of the grocery store, this where all the LEAST fiddled with food resides in a grocery store. (Nate sez: Jesus, he’s describing my shopping habits.)

Eat Slowly.
Eat with people.
Eat until you’re 80% full.
We need to start cooking again

Pollan said it all. I mean, I’m still going to eat a lot of animal products and keep punching cute, furry animals off of my carnivore card with astonishing frequency – but the grandma factor is pretty dead on.

Unless your grandma only ate food from cans.

hmm…