Michael Pollan

Pollan giving a speech at Yale University in 2008

Michael Pollan (born February 6, 1955 on Long Island ) is an American journalist . He is a professor at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley . His literary work includes several non-fiction books as well as numerous articles and essays on food and human eating culture.

The book The Omnivore Dilemma , published in 2006, is the basis for Robert Kenner's film Food, Inc. In the documentary Cowspiracy , he advocates a purely plant-based diet, as this is the most sustainable from a global perspective. His book Cooking was named Knowledge Book of the Year by Bild der Wissenschaft in 2015 .

In his book Change Your Consciousness: What New Psychedelics Research Teaches Us About Addiction, Depression, Fear of Death and Transcendence (2018, German translation 2019), Pollan deals with psychedelics such as LSD , mescaline and DMT .

Publications (selection)

• Second Nature. A Gardener's Education. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York 1991, ISBN 978-0-87113-443-1
  • My second nature. About the happiness of being a gardener. Oekom, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86581-457-9
• The Botany of Desire. 2001
  • The botany of desire . Four plants look at the world. Claassen, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-546-00309-8
• The Omnivore's Dilemma. 2006
  • The omnivore dilemma. How the food industry took over and why eating became so complicated. Goldmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-21933-9
    • Naked lunch , review by Patric Kuh in the Los Angeles Times , April 9, 2006
    • Deconstructing Dinner , New York Times review by David Kamp , April 23, 2006
    • We Are What We (Blindly) Eat , Review by John Carey in Businessweek , May 7, 2006
• In Defense of Food. 2008
  • Food. A defense against industrial nutrition and the diet frenzy. Goldmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-21872-1
• Food Rules. 2009
  • 64 Basic rules of eating. Don't eat anything that your grandmother didn't recognize as food. Goldmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-21950-6 ; expanded and illustrated edition: Do not eat anything that your grandmother did not recognize as food. Golden rules for good nutrition. Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-88897-828-9
• Orchids: love and lies. In: National Geographic , October 2009, pp. 150–170.
• Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. Penguin Press, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-1-59420-421-0
  • Cook. A natural history of transformation , Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-88897-973-6
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Penguin Press, New York City 2018, ISBN 9781594204227
  • Change your consciousness: What the new psychedelic research teaches us about addiction, depression, fear of death and transcendence , Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95614-288-8

Web links

Commons : Michael Pollan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Literature by and about Michael Pollan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Pollan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Michael Pollan on the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism website
• Michael Pollan tells from the plant perspective , lecture at the TED Conference , March 2007 (17:29 min)
• Michael Pollan "Our eating culture is based on abuse" , interview with Ursula Heinzelmann in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 16, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cowspiracy - Official Website . Retrieved April 18, 2015.
2. ↑ LSD and mescaline could help to solve the most important problems of our time on Watson.ch from January 20, 2019.
3. ↑ Reality as fiction. Retrieved February 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ "I had completely misunderstood spirituality" on zeit.de from November 17, 2019.