Talk:Michael Pollan

message: Mansfield College, Oxford was where he studied abroad, not where he received his degree. He regularly lists it in his biographical abstracts out of a well-justified sense of academic inferiority, but study abroad does not merit inclusion as a major credential. I've removed it for this reason.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.155.120.181 (talk) 06:26, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Currently, In Defense of Food redirects to the Michael Pollan page. I'd like to go ahead and create a page of its own for the book.  As a book that spent 6 weeks on top the New York Times Best seller list, I think it's worthy of it's own article.  I'm bringing it up here in case there are any objections or if it was a conscious decision to previously not make an article and redirect instead.  If no one has any issues, I'll probably go ahead and do it tomorrow. Vickser (talk) 18:48, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one objected, I went ahead and made the redirect an article.  It's just a stub, but if anyone would like to fix it up, please feel free to do so.  It's at In Defense of Food. Vickser (talk) 01:03, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: In Defense of Food redirect

message: Is his recent NY Times Open Letter about reforming the food economy noteworthy? He was interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR about it. ThuranX (talk) 04:17, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Open Letter 

message: A link to his discussion about Whole Foods boycott. ThuranX (talk) 16:57, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: On Whole Foods

message: What is his heritage? I assume it's Ashkenazic Jewish on both sides, but from which part(s) of Europe? Badagnani (talk) 03:33, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heritage 

message: so what happened between 1981 and 1991 ?
69.248.248.11 (talk) 01:28, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing decade? 

message: "Writing in the American Enterprise Institute's magazine, Blake Hurst argues that Pollan offers a shallow assessment of factory farming that does not take cost into account."
With criticism like that, who needs praise? ---Dagme (talk) 20:16, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism? 

message: "A 2006 New York Times book review describes him as a "liberal foodie intellectual."
This is a statement about the New York Times, not about Michael Pollan. I am going to remove it. ---Dagme (talk) 20:10, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "liberal foodie intellectual" 

message: It's interesting to see the Jon Entine accusation mentioned in the article: "Pollan has been accused by Jon Entine, who supports GMOs, of using his influence to promote "anti-GMO junk science"."   I personally think that Jon Entine, the founder of Genetic Literacy Project, uses *his* influence to promote pro-GMO junk science, as that site is pretty much a mouthpiece for the industry, a PR campaign for it. Just making this note regarding that person. SageRad (talk) 17:22, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jon Entine accusation 

message: Is the interviews section necessary? Could one not find these interviews elsewhere? It seems to set a poor precedent to start listing every interview conducted with every living or dead person who has an entry on Wikipedia. Past Bedtime [no sleep] 16:46, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it's unnecessary. Many people are interviewed, and many people are interviewed numerous times, and while a particular interview can be notable, it's not really an original "work" which should be appear in a person's bibliography. If anyone is particularly attached to any of these interviews and believes they are noteworthy, they should incorporate them into the text; otherwise, the section should be deleted. 100.40.6.4 (talk) 16:16, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your response! Past Bedtime [no sleep] 16:46, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interviews 

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 04:31, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: Hello, I am Michael Pollan's assistant. Michael's middle name is listed incorrectly on this page. His full name is Michael Kevin Pollan, not Michael Aaron Pollan. I am hoping that someone in the Wikipedia community may be able to correct this. Here is a link to his website that shows his full name: https://michaelpollan.com/about/ Thank you! Mhmnm (talk) 13:09, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , I see the update has been made. Moving on. —¿philoserf? (talk) 17:11, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  help correcting an error 

message: The fact that he is the brother of Tracy Pollan is noteworthy and should be in the article. ---Dagme (talk) 14:48, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brother of Tracy Pollan