The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by: Michael Pollan
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A New York Times bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us—whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.
A New York Times bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us—whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed—he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.
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- Food will never look the same again
The author does an excellent job of explaining how ethics, policy, biology, culture and big business are connected and have shaped the foods that we eat today.Many of our eating habits in the Western diet simply do not make sense and ultimately have global repurcussions.
The author raises many good questions without sounding moralistic or judgemental.Why eat imported organic produce from a foreign country if the shipper burns huge quanitities of fossil fuels to deliver it to you? ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing Read
All of the information in the book is something a well informed person should know.It was an interesting journey though, and quite an easy eye opening read.Highly recommended.
Rating: - Thought-provoking and terrifying
Pollan gives us a ton of information about food production in hopes that we can treat our meals with a little more reverence and understanding. Unfortunately, since I've read the book, I think I feel more food-related anxiety than appreciation. I can't go into a grocery store without having panic attacks. Sweaty palms and irregular breathing on Aisle 2. Seriously.
The truth is, there's a lot to be nervous (and furious) about when you start looking closely at large-scale agrobusiness. ... Read More
Rating: - The True Cost of Eating Your Lunch
Journalist Michael Pollan has written what appears on the surface to be a boring book. He decides to eat four meals and explore the history and consequences of each. He chooses an industrial agricultural meal (fast food), a large-scale organic meal, locally raised farm meal and finally he hunts and gathers his last meal.
By capturing the social, economic, and ecological as well as the moral, and ethical consequences of each meal, Pollan has written a modern day masterpiece on a task most ... Read More
Rating: - Changed My World View
Let me put it out front -- I'm an omnivore and nothing in the book changes that.What has changed is my entire way of looking at food.The book is loaded with information that makes one reconsider the mix of foods you eat.What I like is that it does this while not telling the reader precisely what foods to eat and what foods to avoid.Rather, the emphasis is on balance and on knowing something about where your food comes from.This is a subject for which too many authors become preachy, but not ... Read More
- Food will never look the same againThe author does an excellent job of explaining how ethics, policy, biology, culture and big business are connected and have shaped the foods that we eat today.Many of our eating habits in the Western diet simply do not make sense and ultimately have global repurcussions.
The author raises many good questions without sounding moralistic or judgemental.Why eat imported organic produce from a foreign country if the shipper burns huge quanitities of fossil fuels to deliver it to you? ... Read More
- Amazing ReadAll of the information in the book is something a well informed person should know.It was an interesting journey though, and quite an easy eye opening read.Highly recommended.
- Thought-provoking and terrifyingPollan gives us a ton of information about food production in hopes that we can treat our meals with a little more reverence and understanding. Unfortunately, since I've read the book, I think I feel more food-related anxiety than appreciation. I can't go into a grocery store without having panic attacks. Sweaty palms and irregular breathing on Aisle 2. Seriously.
The truth is, there's a lot to be nervous (and furious) about when you start looking closely at large-scale agrobusiness. ... Read More
- The True Cost of Eating Your LunchJournalist Michael Pollan has written what appears on the surface to be a boring book. He decides to eat four meals and explore the history and consequences of each. He chooses an industrial agricultural meal (fast food), a large-scale organic meal, locally raised farm meal and finally he hunts and gathers his last meal.
By capturing the social, economic, and ecological as well as the moral, and ethical consequences of each meal, Pollan has written a modern day masterpiece on a task most ... Read More
- Changed My World ViewLet me put it out front -- I'm an omnivore and nothing in the book changes that.What has changed is my entire way of looking at food.The book is loaded with information that makes one reconsider the mix of foods you eat.What I like is that it does this while not telling the reader precisely what foods to eat and what foods to avoid.Rather, the emphasis is on balance and on knowing something about where your food comes from.This is a subject for which too many authors become preachy, but not ... Read More
