John Mackey & Michael Pollan: My thoughts
As mentioned yesterday, the UC Berkeley School of Journalism hosted an exciting event last night: Michael Pollan and John Mackey in dialogue about food issues. If you read blogs by other writers in the San Francisco area, you will notice a plethora of comments about the event last night.
Why the excitement? It's a rare thing when we see a CEO of a major corporation sit in a room of possible detractors and open himself up to questions and unscripted dialogue. So rare, in fact, that an auditorium with 2,000 seats sold out in less than a week.
As the event opened, John Mackey asked how many people in the room had read The Omnivore's Dilemma. To my eye, at least 2/3 of the audience raised their hands. This was a room that was engaged, savvy, and ready to hear what Mackey had to say.
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