Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma in 2006 traced four meals back through their supply chains, from industrial maize and feedlots to organic and foraged food, and showed how farm subsidies shape what Americans eat. He reported by following the food himself; for an earlier article he bought a steer to track its journey from ranch to feedlot. His later In Defense of Food reduced the advice to seven words: eat food, not too much, mostly plants.