The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

The American diet is full of portable equipment for various meals; in the long term, however, this fuel actually causes harm to the body. American eating habits distinguish American health from other parts of the world. The documentary "Forks over knife" states as follows. "We spend 2 trillion dollars in medical expenses a year, accounting for more than five times the defense budget, more serious." (Knife and fork).

Michael Poland is the author of the book of the best seller of 5 New York Times: omnivore dilemma: 4 dietary natural history, botany of desire (2009, also applies to PBS), food protection, Rules of Food, and Recently Cooking: Nature of Change History In 2010, he was elected one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

Michael Poland is the author of four best-selling books of the New York Times (Food Rules: Eaters Handbook, Food Defense: Eaters Manifest, Omnische Dilemma, Botany of Desire: Eyes of the World's Plants). "Omniscenous dilemma" was chosen as one of the top 10 best books for 2006 by the New York Times and Washington Post. Poland was chosen as an annual list of 100 most influential magazines in the world, one hundred years in 2010. In 2009, Newsweek nominated him as one of the top ten 'New ideological leaders'.

GWEN IFILL: This book is "Botany of Desire: Plant World View". Among them, the author Michael Poland explores their relationship to human urge and plant life "" Sweetness to our apples, tulips, beauty, marijuana to produce fully genetically modified potatoes Our wish to control poisoning and nature by. Welcome Poland. MICHAEL POLLAN: Well, it all began with bumblebee. The premise of this book is very simple. I ... I was watching bumblebee in the garden one day, I thought about sewing seeds. "Well, what do you have as a gardener?" And understand that this is more than I realized. Like a bumblebee, I spread a gene of one species One is not another one, it is not a single but a potato like a bumblebee, I thought that these plants are for my benefit.

Michael Poland, author of books such as "The Omnivores" and "Desire Botany", has written a New Yorker article on the development of plant science. He said even the idea that plants can be smarter is a quick way for the longest time to be labeled as a "big failure". But for those who have spoken to plants and played music for a long time, this may be a pleasant thing. "They have a similar structure," Poland explained. "They have a way to gather all the sensory data we gathered in our daily lives, we integrate it and present it in the proper way, and I do not have a brain to do this We automatically assume that you need brains to process the information. "