The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
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Author: Michael PollanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-28
ISBN: 0143038583
Number of pages: 450
Publisher: Penguin
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Book Review: A *most-likely should, you'd probably be glad you did* read
Summary: 4 Stars
The Omnivore's Dilemma is an educational and entertaining story about modern food production. It asks the questions: where does our food come from, how is it made, what are the ramifications of the current food production system. Turns out there are three systems: industrial, industrial organic, and organic. The author examines each thoroughly, providing the reader with fascinating looks at each system - the monoculture mega-farm, the factory farm, the industrial organic (or industrial-lite) farm, and the truly organic, self-sufficient and sustaining farm. The history, emergence, and modern dependence on corn was eye-openeing. As were the disadvantages of this system apropos of public health, pollution, and tax-payer dollars.
I withheld a 5 star rating because the book, much like my review, is too long.
The author spends the last fifth of the book exploring what it takes to prepare one personally-hunted/gathered meal. Although he prefaces the impracticality of this spectacle explicitly, he still spends too much time philosophising and/or lecturing about the anthropological "reality" attained through hunting, the commandments for traipsing around in the woods looking for mushrooms, and the proof-like arugment that eating meat is ethically, socailly, and spiritually acceptable. Yawn.
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