A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

Pollan co-starred in the documentary Food Inc. It is divided into three sections further explicating Pollan's principles of "Eat food. Foer criticizes Pollan's argument regarding table-fellowship.

". A 2006 New York Times book review describes him as a "liberal foodie intellectual.