The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Summary and Reviews
|
List Price: Our Price: $8.58 You Save: $7.42 (46%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $7.60 (click here) Category: Book See more book details and other editions |
|---|
Book Reviews of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Book Review: Changes the way you look at food!
Summary: 5 Stars
An amazing tour de force of food in the US! Pollan writes with wonderful wisdom and honesty. The book has a wonderful bibliography.
Industrial food is at the heart of all the major health problems in this country. Pollan will open your eyes to the fact and make you wnat to learn about the alternatives.
Highly recommended!
Book Review: Wonderful book, well spoken
Summary: 5 Stars
This book was extremely informative and very interesting. Some parts are a little slow but if you're driving down the road its easy to get lost in the discussion of various foods and how they succeed or fail based on their ingredients, big corporations, and government intervention.
Corn is a substance nearly incapable of growing without human intervention and is being used, regardless of health issues, in just about anything.
Book Review: If this doesn't change your way of thinking about industrialized food, nothing will
Summary: 5 Stars
Simply put, if I could force one book upon every living soul, this would be the one. I don't see how anyone couldn't learn something at the very least, and more than likely it will change your way of thinking to some degree. It would bring the industrialized food market to its knees if even a percentage of people took this book to heart as much as I have.Book Review: outside the culture dilemma
Summary: 4 Stars
I have to admit that I did not finish this book. I got to the part where the author talks about really feeling his he-man roots and enjoys killing an animal. From a person who grew up inside a hunting culture, I can only say that from my perspective, he gets it all wrong. His conclusions are based upon an educated adult outside the hunting community and he assumes that hunting is "naturally" enjoyable. I can only say that my upbringing shows me that it is a terrible and terrifying experience to boys and that it is only peer pressure that causes them to start to like it in order to be part of the "adult" group. And then, they perpetrate this horror on their own children, and the whole sadistic cycle begins again. Please don't bother with his over educated conclusions, I think he just wants people to think he is "manly".Book Review: Eye Opening!
Summary: 5 Stars
I could barely put this book down! The writing style is casual and gets a bit wordy and technical sometimes, but it's so worth it! All the information is really necessary to open our eyes about factory farms, our food supply and who's in charge of it!(I'm still shocked about all the conflicts of interest! YIKES!) I've seriously changed my eating habits! Read this book, I highly recommend it!