Michael Pollan is an award-winning food journalist that has written the book “In Defense of Food” and who helped to make the documentary “Food, Inc.”. He was invited to speak at California Polytechnic State University on October 15th, but after pressure was applied by a university donor, his speech was changed to a panel discussion.

You can read the full panel discussion at Alter.net, but here are a few of the highlights:

-twenty-six ounces of petroleum go into making each McDonald’s Quarter Pounder
-”T. Boone Pickens says we’re going to have $350 a barrel oil within 10 years. We all saw what that did to the food system in 2008.”
-farmers are operating at a consistent loss in an unsustainable food production system

The overall conclusion was that cheap food is not good food. What do you think?

Tags: agri-business, cost of food production, food inc, in defense of food, michael pollan

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