Michael Pollan’s new book, In Defense of Food, provides the backdrop for this interview between Mr. Pollan, and Deborah Kane of the environmental nonprofit organization, Ecotrust, and his subsequent talk at the Bagdad Theater in Portland, Oregon.   I recently broused through his book and found it contained a lot of facts that I live by - eating like my grandparents. I try to only use "real" foods fresh and sans those preservatives. If a food is not so "healthy" due to fats such as butter I just use less. Real Food is the answer.. In his hugely influential treatise The Omnivore's Dilemma, Pollan traced a direct line between the industrialization of our food supply and the degradation of the environment. His new book takes up where the previous work left off. Examining the question of what to eat from the perspective of health, this powerfully argued, thoroughly researched and elegant manifesto cuts straight to the chase with a maxim that is deceptively simple: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. But as Pollan explains, food in a country that is driven by a thirty-two billion-dollar marketing machine is both a loaded term and, in its purest sense, a holy grail. The first section of his three-part essay refutes the authority of the diet bullies, pointing up the confluence of interests among manufacturers of processed foods, marketers and nutritional scientists—a cabal whose nutritional advice has given rise to a notably unhealthy preoccupation with nutrition and diet and the idea of eating healthily. The second portion vivisects the Western diet, questioning, among other sacred cows, the idea that dietary fat leads to chronic illness. A writer of great subtlety, Pollan doesn't preach to the choir; in fact, rarely does he preach at all, preferring to lets the facts speak for themselves