"Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants."

Either you know of food activist, journalist, professor, and bestselling author Michael Pollan or you should know of him. I've long been in the former camp ~ and now that I heard him speak and attended a pre-lecture reception for him, I'll even go so far as to say I know him. Okay, that's a stretch. But he does drink OV milk. And we do have the same taste in eyewear. So that's something.
The title of his talk was "The Sun Food Agenda", described on his web site as follows:

"By replacing the energy of the sun with energy from fossil fuels, industrial agriculture has made food impressively cheap and abundant. But this achievement has come at a cost. Today, our food system is implicated in three of the most critical problems facing our society: the energy crisis, the climate crisis, and the health care crisis. None of these problems can be addressed without reforming the way America eats. In this inspiring multimedia presentation, Pollan connects the dots between food and health (personal as well as environmental), and introduces us to some of the visionaries who are “resolarizing” the food system. The Sun Food Agenda – involving change at the level of the farm, the marketplace and the culture- promises to improve our health, cut our dependence on fossil fuel, and help solve the climate crisis."