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Summary Of Unhappy Meals
According to the article Unhappy Meals by Michael Pollan, the author claims that you can easily avoid processed products if you just “get out of the supermarket” and go to the farmers market. He claims that going to the farmer’s market is a better choice because you “won’t find any high-fructose corn syrup…you also wont find food harvested long ago and far away. What you will find are fresh whole foods picked at the peak of nutrition quality” (Pollan 23). Nonetheless, although farmer’s market might be a better choice, Pollan failed to take in the account, the majority of the population, who are not able to afford the better quality foods. For example, in the article Soda Politics, Nestle clearly expressed that, “we’re also subject to the effects
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