Peer Review 1

I have reviewed Erin’s blog post on the first section of Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food. She begins by talking about Michael Pollan’s philosophy that we are not eating food, we are eating nutrients. She talks about Pollan’s opinion that consumers should pay attention to the labels on products and avoid products making suspicious health claims. Erin also gives a background of the information about governments involved in the Food Industry. She talks about how the Food and Drug Administration placed a law that allows imitation products to not have a label saying IMITATION if it is not “nutritionally inferior.” She disagreed with this law because she doesn’t believe the two products are nutritionally equal. She ends her blog talking about how many companies mislabel their foods and make false health claims. She links to an article about a Candy Company that was sued for their false labeling problems.

I agree with Erin’s argument about imitation foods. If it is not the real thing, then it shouldn’t be labeled as such. She gave really great information from the book and connected it to the article that was linked in her blog post.