as other reviewers of Pollan have noted, Pollan gives an uncritical pass to his protagonist, Joel Saletin, in _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_. Saletin has some pretty reprehensible politics and Pollan largely lets him off the hook. If he scolds anyone it is the urbanite for hating on rural farmers like Saletin, rather than investigating Saletin’s belief […]
So, to continue with my posts on Michael Pollan’s work, particularly _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_, to give a little more background, apparently when commenting on the book to Dwayne, mostly agreeing with him, I was unaware of the bee’s nest I was stepping on. As in: no idea that Michael Pollan has a zealous fanbase of […]
Black homophobia isn’t especially galling because of their history in this country. White homophobia is especially galling because white conservatives have the resources and, my god, the energy to make defeating LGBT rights such a priority.
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Unfortunately this becomes a problem when, as the No on Prop 8 people did, gay marriage is presented as a […]
seriously. I sat in the dentist’s chair, getting some super duper periodontal cleaning and *loved* the sound of the scraping and stuff.
why? because I have dental insurance AND a salary that enables me to afford the co-pays.
the last time I went to the dentist, to have a broken tooth repaired, or something, I had no […]
my spirit animal is a giraffe. yours?
Anyway, as I continued reading _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_ I became increasingly annoyed with Pollan’s romanticism. His decided tendency to insist that his experience is everyone’s experience, that as he says, eating lettuce is like getting rilly rilly close to our herbivorous buddies, deer, cows, giraffes, etc.
Here’s what I posted […]
More ramblings on the things that irritated me about Pollan’s book, _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_. In line with a lot of other “green,” “ecology,” and “animal rights” perspectives, Pollan tends to ignore the role of labor in food production. OK, so the point of his book was to trace food specifically, and not concern himself too […]
I’m going to repost some exchanges that went on regarding an editorial Michael Pollan wrote regarding food security. I’d just picked up Pollan’s book, _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_. I’d spied it on the “new” book shelf at the library and remembered that a couple of people at LBO recommended the book for our book reading group […]
Anthony’s keeping a list of all the ways obama continues to tack to the right or undermine claims made in the primary particularly. Here’s another one:
Later Emanuel responded to a question on the Employee Free Choice Act,
a measure backed by organized labor but strongly opposed by business,
saying, “Let me take your question and go somewhere […]
On June 29, 2008, Uhuru Movement members Dr. Aisha Fields, Kobina Bantushango (Thomas Buchanan) and Dr. Michelle Strongfields were brutalized and arrested in Huntsville, Alabama by Huntsville police for exercising their legal right to observe and document police as they harassed young Africans after a regional Black Arts Festival in the city.
The HSV3 currently await […]
“My community has a problem with homophobia, but we aren’t the only ones. African Americans are but 12 percent of the population. We have neither the numbers nor the power, given our history in this country, to disenfranchise another group. Blaming us for what is an American ill–as prevalent in, say, white Tripoli, Iowa, as […]
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