alt Hacker NewsTo Michael Pollan it seems they aren't worth mentioning right in the first breath when talking about real food, but perhaps an afterthought. "Shop the peripheries" causes them to be lumped in with potato chips and oreos and other stuff that aren't in the peripheries of a supermarket. I don't accept the same real food dichotomy that they do.
Beans are a direct product of plants. I don’t know what you are on about, but I’m sure even the celebrities you take so much stock in consider them “real food”, too. I wouldn’t know, because I have no idea what you’re ranting about.