"God gave us dominion over the animals. Okay? If we can get 50,000 of them in one spot, why shouldn't we?" —Stephen Colbert In Stephen Colbert's interview with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation and co-producer of upcoming documentary Food, Inc., Schlosser lays down the problems with factory farming and genetically modified corn as Colbert tries to derail him by pointing out that "fecal material" is poop and thinking about the superpowers he could get from corn. And so much more! Watch the video after the jump....
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Author (Fast Food Nation) and documentary co-producer Eric Schlosser (Food, Inc.) is tonight's guest on The Colbert Report, 11:30 p.m. ET. Related: A Preview of Food, Inc....
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Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, was on The Colbert Report last night. Colbert welcomed him with Sierra Mist soda, which definitely doesn't make Pollan's five-ingredients-or-less rule for virtuous foods. But Pollan politely took a sip and argued that he can still be American while avoiding American cheese (and other synthetic foods). For example, he encourages all parents to go the breast milk route, except we learn, thanks to a Mrs. Pollan in the audience, that he was not breast fed himself! Scandal. The interview, after the jump....
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Couch potatoes, take note: Michael Pollan (Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food) is tonight's guest on The Colbert Report, 11:30 p.m. ET, Comedy Central. That is all. Carry on....
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In case you didn't watch last night, the clip of Mark Bittman on The Colbert Report. [Video, after the jump.] Colbert: "One aspect of conscious eating that I understand is that I like to eat things that were once conscious. If you show me a head of broccoli that can cry, I would dig in to that thing."...
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"Hey, Dunkin' Donuts: America does not run on Dunkin'. You guys owe me a new gas tank." —Stephen Colbert, on Monday's show opener...
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