robbishreads 's review for:

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

3.0

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A journalist trying to find out what's the deal with our food anyway, it does a great job of showing just how efficient our corn into cheap food system is, and how impossible it would be for anyone without lots of money or good land to wean themselves from it. I really enjoyed the chapters about industrial food, organic, industrial organic, and small farms, with the "grass farmer" chapters the best in the book. After that, there isn't much to be learned so you can probably stop reading. Even though Pollan is an outstanding supporter of organic, the lesson I learned from this is don't buy organic, buy local. We also need educated farmers and educated farmers in politics. The people that grow our food should probably have some input on the laws that affect them.