I've stumbled upon this article by Michael Pollan twice now -- once in my friend Ryan's Visualizing Science blog, and then again this afternoon, when my friend shr accidentally messaged me a link to it that he had intended to send to his lovely wife. I'm taking it as a sign of its relative significance, so I figured the least I could do was post a link to it, so here you go.
A bit depressing, but a good read nonetheless.