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I felt an odd connection reading this book after McLuhan's Understanding Media, because in some ways I felt they were about the same thing – the way in which the acceleration of technology is changing society. The Omnivore's Dilemma could almost be a case study for McLuhan's book, as Pollan's book is very much about how the industrial system of agriculture is changing our relationship to food – and for Pollan, unsurprisingly, this change is an unmitigated disaster.
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OK, Michael Pollan has a point about how we (should) eat. But I found this book boring from the beginning to the middle and smugly self-satisfied from the middle to the end. It also makes some jarringly incorrect claims, including the claim that the lack of a food culture in America causes eating disorders (p. 301), and the claim that science has 'discovered' that animals have language (p. 306). Not cool.
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ok, this is lost somewhere in the compound, i think. i have maybe 75 pages left but i can't find it anywhere!
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IMMA GET BACK TO THIS
EVENTUALLY
EVENTUALLY
Am never eating corn again.
Jul 25, 2008
Leslie
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it was amazing
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life-changing,
food-cooking
Sep 30, 2008
Ethan
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Valerie
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it was amazing
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learning-about-the-world,
changed-my-thinking
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