Johnny One Note Critics Populist food critic Mark Bittman is out with a new book, but it is filled with the same old dribble. This time he focuses heavily on what he terms “engineered edible substances” also known as “junk.” He romanticizes about our hunter-gatherer-scavenger past and calls today’s junk food “suicidal” and “akin to poison.” By contrast, Harvard/Wellesley’s Robert Paarlberg says we should produce and eat less food, but highlights the contradiction that, “The use of modern science is broadly welcomed in medicine, transport and communications…yet it has become strangely controversial in food production.” He uses the case study of large “facto...

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