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Michael Kevin Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism. Among his bestsellers are books that explore the socio-cultural impacts of food and the efficacy of mind-altering drugs to help fight depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders.

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How Change Is Going to Come in the Food System

We simply can’t afford the healthcare costs incurred by the current system of cheap food—which is why, sooner or later, we will find the political will to change it.

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Michael Pollan
2011
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How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip into Words?

Soon after I set out to write a book about psychedelics, it became obvious what I would have to do: Trip, and then write about what it was like.

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Michael Pollan
2018
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Some of My Best Friends Are Germs

One of the keys to good health may turn out to involve managing our internal fermentation.

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Michael Pollan
2013
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan—Review

Pollan’s illuminating history of hallucinogenic drugs reveals that their mystical and medical benefits are indivisible.

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Oliver Burkeman
2018
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Big Food Strikes Back: Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take on Corporate Agriculture?

A food system organized around subsidized monocultures of corn and soy guzzles tremendous amounts of fossil fuel and in the process emits tremendous amounts of greenhouse gas — as much as a third of all emissions, by some estimates.

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Michael Pollan
2016
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My Tragic Encounter with James Taylor’s Pig

The summer of 1971 was drawing to a close, and I had a large and growing problem: Kosher, my pet pig.

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Michael Pollan
2013
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The New Science of Psychedelics

Recent studies are finding that drugs such as LSD and psilocybin can help to alleviate depression, anxiety and addiction—and may have profound things to teach us about how the mind works.

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Michael Pollan
2018
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Farmer in Chief

With a suddenness that has taken us all by surprise, the era of cheap and abundant food appears to be drawing to a close. What this means is that you will find yourself confronting the fact that the health of a nation’s food system is a critical issue of national security.

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Michael Pollan
2008
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Not So Fast on Magic Mushrooms

Only a few days ago, millions of Americans probably had never heard of psilocybin, the active agent in psychedelic mushrooms, but thanks to Denver, it is about to get its moment in the political sun.

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Michael Pollan
2019
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Capitalism’s Favorite Drug

The dark history of how coffee took over the world.

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Michael Pollan
2020
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