Peer Response #1

After reading Frank Behling’s initial post, I agree completely with what he believes. Frank agrees with Michael Pollan about the way Americans have changed the way we eat over the past century or so. Food companies add nutrients to foods that lack certain nutrients, then call the reengineered food something else, such as butter, although it is really just many chemicals, margarine. The food companies do this to try to make a cheap product that has all the same benefits as a similar, natural food. Then once this food is said to be equal to its natural counter part, a “Healthy For You” label is slapped on the box, although it may not be healthy for you at all, according to Michael Pollan.

This first blog post is clearly laid out and can be clearly understood. It can easily be seen that Frank definitely agrees with Michael Pollan about how healthy processed foods are for the human body, and why these processed foods are engineered. Frank links to an article criticizing the amount of food scientists deemed to be “healthy” for humans. This list includes many natural foods such as carrots, whole grains, and fruits, all of which most people already realize to be “healthy”. Between this other article and the post, I also agree with Frank. People need to stop eating processed foods so companies quit manufacturing them, and leave science for discovering what foods are healthy and not to make healthy foods.