Michael Pollan examines the meaning of food in today’s society. He explains how American food production has gone from using the sun to grow grass and feed cows to using fossil fuels to process corn in order to feed cows. As a result, Pollan argues that food is much cheaper and more abundant, but at a cost: our health, the environment, and animals have suffered. He helps you to understand the attitudes and expectations of the general public, whom do not care about what they are actually eating, and of those who actually eat foods based on their origins and production. Pollan sets out to answer the question: How should a responsible person eat in the modern world? He points out that the obvious solutions (shopping at Whole Foods, eating “free-range” chickens, buying organic) are not sufficient.
“Many people today seem perfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them.”(11) Michael Pollan wrote this book for those who care about their foods’ origins. This book is for the people whom check the food labels before buying the produce, and for those who are against…show more content… He supports the farmers, scientists, and economists who strive to reduce the effects of industrialization on foods, then, sequentially on the health of Americans. Pollan supports their values of clean, clear, and pure foods, meaning foods that have been untouched by industrialization. This being said, it can be assumed that Pollan strongly denies the view of those who caused the omnivore’s dilemma. These people are the inventors, the businessmen, and the public who created, spread, and provided to industrialization. These are the people who put “dilemma” in “omnivore’s dilemma,” according the Pollan. These people argue that the new way of producing food and using pesticides has more pros than