Michael Pollan, author, journalist and activist, talks with GristTV in a short interview about the food industry’s relationship to energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and health.

Pollan is a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. and a former executive editor for Harper’s Magazine whose books include:

  • In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008)
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006)
  • The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001)
  • A Place of My Own (1997)
  • Second Nature A Gardener’s Education (1991).