America on the Move in Tennessee

12 Commandments of Food

1. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
2. Avoid products containing ingredients you can't pronounce.
3. Don't eat anything that won't eventually root.
4. Avoid products that carry health claims.
5. Shop the peripheries of the supermarket; stay out of the middle.
6. Better yet, buy food somewhere else: the farmers' market or community supported agriculture.
7. Pay more, eat less.
8. Eat food from animals that eat grass.
9. Eat a wide variety of species.
10. Cook, and if you can, grow some of your own food.
11. Eat meals, and eat them only at tables.
12. Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

By Michael Pollen