Michael Pollan is an author, food activist, journalist and professor of journalism at the UC

Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. e mainly focuses on the industrial food chain !ith
re"ards to his research. e emphasi#es ho! cookin" is one of the simplest and most important
steps people can take to improve their family$s health, %uild communities, help fi& our %roken
food system and perhaps most importantly, %reak our "ro!in" dependence on corporations. 'n
the video %elo! he illustrates ho! Mc(onald$s insists on usin" )usset Bur%ank Potatoes, a potato
in *merica that is unusually lon" and difficult to "ro!. +hey further insist that their potatoes have
no %lemishes at all, !hich is hard %ecause these potatoes commonly suffer from !hat is referred
to as ,et ,ecrosis, !hich causes un!anted spots and lines on the potatoes. 'f they have this,
Mc(onald$s !on$t %uy them and the only !ay to eliminate this is throu"h the use of a pesticide
called methamidophos -Monitor. /that is so to&ic that the farmers !ho "ro! these potatoes in
'daho !on$t venture outside and into their fields for five days after they spray.0 1hen Mc(onald$s
is ready to harvest their potatoes, they have to put them in "iant atmospheric controlled sheds
the si#e of foot%all stadiums %ecause they are not edi%le for si& !eeks. /+hey have to off "as all
the chemicals in them.0 '$ll let you !atch the video for more information, you should have a hard
time eatin" Mc(onald$s after this, %ut that$s not a %ad thin". )ead
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