Jim's review
The Omnivore's Dilemma
by Michael Pollan
Jim's review
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Jim's review
rating:
Pollan's thoroughly researched and highly entertaining book traces 3 meals from the source of the ingredients to the dinner table. The first meal comes completely from our corn-based "industrial food system", the second meal explores the organic food system, and the third meal which Pollan himself hunted and gathered, is offered not as an example of a viable food system in our modern age, rather to demonstrate how much we take for granted with our modern food supply system.
The section covering the industrial food system takes us to corn fields in Iowa, where we learn how government policy, "advances" in science, and the industrialization of our food production helped pave the way in making corn and soybean the two main agricultural commodity crops, whose derivatives wind up in many of the foods we eat. Along the way, Pollan points out many of the problems that we now face as a result of these policies such as obesity, diabetes, water pollution, and climate chang...more
The section covering the industrial food system takes us to corn fields in Iowa, where we learn how government policy, "advances" in science, and the industrialization of our food production helped pave the way in making corn and soybean the two main agricultural commodity crops, whose derivatives wind up in many of the foods we eat. Along the way, Pollan points out many of the problems that we now face as a result of these policies such as obesity, diabetes, water pollution, and climate chang...more
