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Michael Pollan on Bill Maher

by: Jill Richardson

Sat May 30, 2009 at 21:37:41 PM PDT

If you missed the most recent episode of Bill Maher, you need to see it - at least the part with Michael Pollan. Eddie C sent me an excerpt of the best part:

Maher: We can't have [single payor putting insurance companies out of business]! Health care is the biggest industry we've got. We need sick people and the food companies are doing their part to help.
Oh yes, they put the time in the lab to find out just how much fat, sugar, and salt to load into a Happy Meal to make it more like crack. Do you know that even our baby foods are now up to one third sugar? Only Americans could develop comfort food for somebody who's already eating off a tit. I mean, what kind of people hooks babies on sugar? It's not a mystery why even one in five four-year-olds is obese. Four-year-olds! The elephant in the room is your kid. Not only can't Johnny read, he can't see his dick. If Al-Qaeda slipped something into our food that did that to us, well we would torture some Arabs and keep on eating.

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Michael Pollan on Bill Maher | 6 comments

that was well handled (4.00 / 3)

It's good to see people in the media providing such a favorable environment for these issues.

"If God were to appear to starving people, he would not dare to appear in any other form than food." - Mahatma Gandhi

by: Miep @ Sun May 31, 2009 at 07:08:19 AM UTC

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I miss out on so much that you guys are talking about! (4.00 / 2)

We have only 5 local channels and none of the national cable programs (we can't receive cable). We could subscribe to satellite TV, but why? For 500 channels of garbage so we can watch a few good programs? I've got waay too many books to read! And too much to do out in my garden. TV is a waste of time-especially watching the ignorant talking heads.

by: DennisP @ Sun May 31, 2009 at 14:19:58 PM UTC

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I've got no TV at all (4.00 / 1)

if that's any consolation.

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

by: Jill Richardson @ Mon Jun 01, 2009 at 05:20:55 AM UTC

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At the risk of offending some readers,... (4.00 / 1)

I would say you are a better person for not having it. There's just too much else to do that's really interesting in this world, like running a relevant, very useful blog. When I sit in front of the tube, I find that I become a zombie. Nothing challenging like reading Wendell Berry (which I did last night). In fact, even though we have a TV, I rarely watch it, especially during gardening season.

by: DennisP @ Mon Jun 01, 2009 at 14:35:03 PM UTC

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If it's any consolation... (0.00 / 0)

I miss all of this, too.

But that's because my tv time is wasted watching basketball, baseball or movies on AMC, all of which I've already seen about 14,346 times...

So that makes 3 of us who don't see any of it!

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

by: JayinPortland @ Mon Jun 01, 2009 at 05:28:04 AM UTC

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The Elephant in The Room is Your Kid (4.00 / 1)

Laughing Out Loud.. what a great line! Boy I wish I could read the hate mail that will come in on that one. :)

by: Curtis Abbey @ Sun May 31, 2009 at 18:20:58 PM UTC

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