In Response to Eat Food: Food Defined

I honestly get the point that Pollan's trying to make, I really do, but there will always be that little part of me that knows that Mr. Pollan is talking from a point of privilege. He has the money, time, transportation, and the means to go to farmer's markets and buy fresh whole foods. I have never had these privileges. I am a very poor and very busy college student. I am lucky to get myself to the Caf to even eat, much less go to a supermarket and read every label and prepare meals for myself. I live in a world where you work long hours for cheap money, while you watch the price of living go up. As I have gotten older, it gets harder and harder to eat whole foods all the time. I wish it were as simple as Pollan writes it out to be, but for some of us, it is a stretch. During this course I have learned the practical side of industrial farming and the benefits of Organic farming, each still, and always will have their pros and cons. Whether that be inhumane animal treatment to the inhumane workers' injustice. Each serve a purpose and I still feel like I can't properly pick a side of the argument. Maybe that is irresponsible for me to say as a consumer, but how can a person who knows what it is like to be poor, pick the side of people who don't? How could I pick the more expensive produce, or even think about siding with either one, when both have some serious consequences? If I had the means to buy whole food, I would, but I don't. So for right now the only option I have is to eat food and live happy.