Response to Mr. Behling

In this latest installment of SSST’s LSC 100 Blog:

I will respond to Mr. Frank Behling’s blog concerning Michael Pollan’s introduction chapters.

Mr. Behling’s blog concentrates on Pollan’s attack on the food industry for being unable to scientifically manufacture a superdooper food that has all of the nutrient powers as unaltered food. Behling brings up the point that no matter how much scientific information we have, all of our technology and information still is no match for mother’s homegrown garden (go figure, mother still knows best). When I read this, the image I got was that montage scene in Rocky IV (I still can’t believe they made that many movies with the same plot; Rocky is down in the dumps, a new opponent steps into the picture, montage, and Rocky wins something in the end. Come on Hollywood. Lets get original) where Rocky trains under “old school” techniques, while that Russian Aryan has all these professional trainers using science to push him to the limits of the human body. I’m not gonna spoil the ending, go watch the movie, but as for the food match, the old-school home-grown food wins.

Mr. Behling then makes the point that Pollan is a bit too…..sassy with the food industry. Pollan, stop your tirade. The food industry isn’t the devil. It’s okay for them to be interested in how our body and food interact and then try to make it better. That’s called science. It’s not going anywhere. Deal with it.

All in all, Mr. Behling establishes many good points about Pollan’s strict way of thinking about food.