Part A: Omnivore’s Dilemma is a scathing indictment of the industrial food system we’ve perfected over the last century. Michael Pollan is a prolific author and journalist and muckraker who concentrates his efforts on the food system and the environment. Omnivore’s Dilemma is his tour de force, with which he successfully deconstructs the food system into three principle food chains: The Industrial, Organic, and Hunter-Gatherer. Pollan begins with arguably the most important and certainly the largest
Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma is an eye opening book about how the average American meal is brought to our table. This book provokes thought, and personally made me eat more vegetables, other than corn. I now have a better idea of how I should eat and not just whatever is most convenient. Many thoughts have been swirling around my head since finishing the book, so in this reflection, I will put them down onto paper. As mentioned in the first chapter, corn is the root of American food culture
In part three of Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivores Dilemma, he describes how he’s determined to create a meal that is self-made entirely of things he has grown, hunted or foraged. In the third part of his book, he wants to challenge his readers’ assumptions about the health benefits we can gain by hunting and foraging our food, educated ourselves regard to why farm animals shouldn’t be dismissed as automatons, and what makes the perfect American diet. He writes that, “there are far to many of
In part three of Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivores Dilemma, he describes how he’s determined to create a meal that is self-made entirely of things he has grown, hunted or foraged. In the third part of his book, he wants to challenge his readers’ assumptions about the skills needed to hunt and forage our food, educated ourselves regard to why farm animals shouldn’t be dismissed as automatons, and what makes the perfect American meal. He writes that, “there are far to many of us and not nearly enough