Analysis Of Food As Thought By Mary Maxfield

On the other hand, in “Food as Thought: Resisting the Moralization of Eating,” Marry Maxfield argues about how she disagrees with Michael Pollan’s ideas of getting rid of processed food and eating more healthy food. Michael Pollan is a journalist who has written an article about how people should eat healthier food. Maxfield puts several of Pollan’s quotes in her article to show Pollan’s ideas are wrong according to her belief. She state “Pollan, for example, twice notes that our diet of processed foods makes us sick and fat, and then without evidence to support his claim” (Maxfield 444). She want the readers to know that she is going against Pollan’s ideas of eating healthy by saying Pollan does not have evidences to support his argument.