Food supply issues

In the Salon.com article What’s wrong with our food? Michael Pollan talks about the dangers of agricultural monocultures and provides motivation for supporting distributed, local production methods.

I really think the over-centralization of the food supply is a threat to national security and public health, and it’s a threat that’s not being addressed. To the extent it is addressed, it’s addressed in adding layers of regulations and adding layers of technology, and I just don’t think that’s the way to go. I think when you have a problem you go back to the roots, and you fix the roots of the problem, you don’t just tack on bandages, and that seems to be where we’re going … We’re playing with fire, feeding ourselves this way.

Michael Pollan is the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.”