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Omnivore's Dilemma: Part I: Industrial/Corn
"the Omnivore's Dilemma" - review
Michael Pollan's book "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is not necessarily meant to put across breakthrough information or to trigger intense feelings in individuals reading it. Instead, it is actually intended to provide important information so as for readers to be able to gain a more complex understanding regarding what foods would be healthy for them to eat and how they can develop the ability to differentiate between a series of foods on their own in an attempt to find the best solutions possible. In addition to this, Pollan explains why particular institutions that are involved in food production take on certain attitudes with regard to their product and their customers. In Part I, of Chapters 1,2, and 3 of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan shows how corn is made, and the sources behind its production, with monetary gains being the driving force behind every decision.
It appears that much of Pollan's book is not necessarily dedicated at providing people with information about what they should eat. Instead, it is directed...
Furthermore, Pollan emphasizes that corn is directly connected to oil, as a typical steer apparently "will have consumed in his lifetime the equivalent of thirty-five gallons of oil -- nearly a barrel" (Pollan). This provides readers with the fact that it is important for them to avoid particular products in spite of the fact that they are generally promoted as being healthy.
Pollan wants people to understand that the food industry is concentrated on increasing profits for particular corporations while providing the general public with a series of products that are apparently healthy. The writer proceeds with emphasizing how companies use words like 'organic' with the purpose of gathering as many supporters as they possibly can. "It seems that even organic food has succumbed to the economic logic of processing" (Pollan). However, from his perspective, it would seem that these strategies…
Omnivore's Dilemma/Part III Part III of the Omnivore's Dilemma: Food Directly from the Source The purpose of Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, is to show that the choices we make about the foods we eat are not always simple. The book is divided into three parts; in each part Pollan attempts to eat from a shorter food chain. Part III of the book, the subject of this review, is entitled "The
Omnivore's Dilemma In recent years social historians have began to delve into more and more minute topics about the way humans interact within their social and natural world, and most especially how certain everyday objects and actions have had a grand affect upon the way society and culture changes. In The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan uses the tools of both history and anthropology to uncover that it is that concerns humans
Omnivore Science is a neutral human pursuit. It is only the application of science that raises potential ethical questions. Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle perfectly exposes the ways science can be manipulated by the hands of its sponsors. Money determines the nature of research, its methodologies, its findings, and its applications. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma raises similar ethical questions and concerns, focused not on the military but on the food
Moreover, vegetarianism is theoretically possible at McDonalds by eating the token salads on the menu. The token salads might still be in keeping with the tenets of agro-business but they do not contain meat products. Still, Pollan hints at how those salads support the same industries that sustain large-scale animal slaughtering. In Chapter Seven, Pollan focuses on the ethics and the feasibility of the fast food business model as well
But the larger-scale solution of Whole Foods is not much better than industrialization -- organic farming has become corporatized and industrialized, and many farmers' free-range chickens are not part of an ecosystem like Salatin, but merely meet federally regulated requirements to have a few more inches to move than their commercially farmed brethren. 'Big Organic' pioneers like the CEO of Cascadian Farms drive Lexuses with ORANIC as their vanity
Corn as a sweetener -- yes indeed, ketchup and to cook French fries -- all without providing the basic nutritional needs and taking more from the environment that is given back (pp. 109-19). Today, my epiphany began with a Sunday morning ritual -- a trip to Starbucks for a Caramel Breve and pastry, while working on the Sunday crossword puzzle. It occurred to me that this would be an interesting