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Fast chat: Michael Pollan of 'Food Inc.'

Author of the foodie manifesto "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and, more recently, "In Defense of Food," Michael Pollan grew up in Woodbury when farms still dotted Long Island. Growing up next to a pumpkin field may have influenced Pollan's work as a food evangelist - not so much for a fruits-and-nuts regimen, but against the corporatization and general unhealthiness of American foodstuffs.

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