Like rats, humans are faced with the omnivore's dilemma: what to eat? Michael Pollan investigates the human food chains that represent our modern-day choices: industrial agriculture and animal farming, growing organic corporately or locally, and wild food foraging in the style of the hunter-gatherer. Pollan steps outside of so-called objective journalism to get personally involved with his subject whether buying a steer bound for the feedlot, treating his family to a fastfood McDonalds dinner consumed in their car, or hunting a wild pig and gathering morels to prepare dinner for his foraging friends. Reading this book will change the way you think about food. What does corn have to do with fossil fuels? Is corn taking over the world? Since we are what we eat, you owe it to yourself to be informed. You can't go wrong with Pollan's careful research, naturalist perspective, and delicious writing style.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
emma.cornell, May 7, 2007
Like rats, humans are faced with the omnivore's dilemma: what to eat? Michael Pollan investigates the human food chains that represent our modern-day choices: industrial agriculture and animal farming, growing organic corporately or locally, and wild food foraging in the style of the hunter-gatherer. Pollan steps outside of so-called objective journalism to get personally involved with his subject whether buying a steer bound for the feedlot, treating his family to a fastfood McDonalds dinner consumed in their car, or hunting a wild pig and gathering morels to prepare dinner for his foraging friends. Reading this book will change the way you think about food. What does corn have to do with fossil fuels? Is corn taking over the world? Since we are what we eat, you owe it to yourself to be informed. You can't go wrong with Pollan's careful research, naturalist perspective, and delicious writing style.(62 of 120 readers found this comment helpful)