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JaneHansen
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In Defense of Food and UW Madison's Go Big Read
Sep 29 2009, 6:23 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 29 2009, 6:23 PM EDT
Gerry Campbell noted the following:

In Defense of Food-- There is no better place to begin an understanding of systems concepts than your dinner plate. What you eat, where it came from, how you pay for it, what it does to/for you and what it does to our world are all great question which lead to complexity, feedback loops, mental models and so on. Here in Wisconsin our largest University is giving all of us the opportunity to get engaged in a conversation about food systems. Go Big Read is UW-Madison's new common-reading program. It aims to have thousands of people reading, talking and sharing their reactions and opinions. The First book selected for this program is Michael Pollan's book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto,

Pollan examines the modern American food landscape where the deceptively simple question of what to eat has been muddled by the numerous and often conflicting claims of food producers, marketers, and nutrition experts. If you want a taste of Pollan as a systems thinker look at the link below where he connects food systems and health insurance issues.



I encourage you to read Pollan's book, but at a minimum check out the general web page for the UW's Go Big Read discussion at http://www.gobigread.wisc.edu

Please log on to the site look at the events, check out the blog an give your comments as a food systems thinker and activist.



Big Food vs. Big Insurance
ByMICHAEL POLLAN

Published: September 9, 2009York Times Op Ed September 10 2009



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html
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