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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 license plates, observes Pollan, and Whole Foods is nicknamed 'Whole Paycheck' because of its expense. How can something be organic or sustainable if it depends on FedEx-ing 'organic' meat all over the country?
Perhaps the most useful point of Pollan's book is that there is no singular solution at all to what Pollan calls our 'national eating disorder.' Americans have tended to demonize certain food groups, such as carbohydrates and fats, and view other foods, often heavily promoted by their respective industries, as cure-alls or medicine,...
A more 'organic' approach to food is necessary, but that does not mean commercial organic farming, rather it means a more intuitive cultural approach to food that values food as nourishment beyond nutrition or dollars and cents, as a commodity to be sold and purchased.
Pollan calls for a fundamental paradigm shift in the way that food is viewed -- instead of trying to make food fast and cheap, quality rather than quality must be the focus. American children, because of obesity and too many rather than few calories, will likely live fewer years than their parent's generation, and even the United Nation's report on world hunger reveals that more people now are suffering from 'over-nutrition' rather than 'under-nutrition' across the globe. People are hungry -- not for calories, but for a way of eating that is truly nutritious and satisfying.
Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan: Socio-Economic Influences of Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Diets Michael Pollan, in his book The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, discussed the social, economic, and geographic/environmental factors that influenced humanity's diets, of which eating both plants and animals -- an omnivorous diet -- is the predominant diet in most of today's societies. However, in the midst of this omnivorous diet is an emerging group of
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'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
Although Pollan condemns conventional agriculture, he also notes that even organically-labeled food is often grown in a manner that is not much better for the environment in terms of its carbon footprint -- the regulations upon what constitutes organic food can be quite lax, and some foods that use some pesticides that are grown locally and sold in farmer's markets might not be technically organic, but leave less of a
Omnivore's Dilemma In Michael Pollan's book he touches on many issues relative to what humans eat, and in the process he spends time covering the poor eating habits of Americans and the likely reasons for the obesity crisis in the United States (think carbohydrates). His narrative includes animal flesh that is produced on so-called "factory farms" -- including pig meat he proudly kills himself -- and in doing so he
Pollan stresses the need to cook our own food and reassert the historical and cultural importance of food in our lives. Again this strengthens Pollan's rhetoric and continues the line of reasoning he began in Omnivore's Dilemma. So it's good to be encouraged by Pollan, who eulogises the pleasures of cooking, and to be reminded of some basic truths."When you cook at home, you seldom find yourself reaching for the