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GROUP 8 PAGES 12-14C. The third section is about “personal rules of eating” (12).1. In what way are Pollan’s rules of eating different from the nutritionguidelines we’re used to (12)?2. How does Pollan answer the question regarding his authority on thesubject of eating? Do you think he is a credible source (13)?GROUP 9 PAGES 13-143. Pollan states that “by the 1960s…. if you wanted to eat produce grownwithout synthetic chemicals or meat raised on pasture withoutpharmaceuticals, you were out of luck. The supermarket [was] the onlyplace to buy food, and real food was rapidly disappearing from its shelves,to be replaced by the modern cornucopia of highly processed foodlikeproducts” (13-14). What does this mean?4. Referring to the quote above, how are things beginning to change now?GROUP 10 PAGE 14/OVERVIEW5. What does Pollan predict for the future if more consumers continue to“join the movement that is renovating our food system” (14)?13. Does the introduction of this book seem to have a positive or negative tone? Do youthink there is good news about the future of food in America?43