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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
"The Omnivore's DIlemma" is an eye opening, fascinating and horrifying tour of the America food chain. Despite the wealth of statistics and science, this book is very readable, almost to the point of requiring midnight oil.
One of Pollan's key points is that we can only eat as we do because we are willfully ignorant about the contents and preparation of our food, and its life before it reaches our plate. Exactly for the reason, I skipped the chapters discussing the slaughter of meat and poultry. Even so, reading this book has had a profound impact on my view toward what I eat. I am angry and disgusted by what our collective desire for cheap food, ease of preparation, and the growth of corporate profits is doing to our national well being - and our planet. And I am sad to know that buying organic is not the easy solution I had previously thought. Time to find another CSA and eat local, small farm, seasonal. And no more pork, certainly any that is produced industrially.
One of Pollan's key points is that we can only eat as we do because we are willfully ignorant about the contents and preparation of our food, and its life before it reaches our plate. Exactly for the reason, I skipped the chapters discussing the slaughter of meat and poultry. Even so, reading this book has had a profound impact on my view toward what I eat. I am angry and disgusted by what our collective desire for cheap food, ease of preparation, and the growth of corporate profits is doing to our national well being - and our planet. And I am sad to know that buying organic is not the easy solution I had previously thought. Time to find another CSA and eat local, small farm, seasonal. And no more pork, certainly any that is produced industrially.