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The Bob Cesca Show: Baby in a Corner

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))4/11/2018 7:26:10 am PDT

re: #197 dangerman

pollan makes it so easy:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
If it needs a brand or has ā€œingredientsā€ itā€™s not food.
(If your grandmother wouldnā€™t recognize it, itā€™s not food.)

His other point is that there is only so much food humans can eat in a year, no matter how hard they try. So there is pressure on food producers to raise the margins on what they sell because there is an upper limit on volume.

And if they can take a package of industrially harvested wheat and mix it with some industrially mass-produced whey by-products and bulk chemicals, they are going to be able to make a lot more per unit than by selling us fresh pasta and cheese.