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What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous landscape, what's at stake becomes not only our own and our children's health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth. Pollan follows each of the food chains--industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves--from the source to the final meal, always emphasizing our coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. The surprising answers Pollan offers have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us.--From publisher description.… (plus d'informations)
chrisharpe: Less of a narrative than "The Omnivore's Dilemma", "In Defense of Food" is a succinct argument for considering what we eat, and includes potted advice for consumers who prefer a set of simple rules for eating. As the title suggests, this is perhaps the better analysis of the way the food industry affects the eater and what we can do about it.… (plus d'informations)
My first thought after a few chapters was that this was poorly named--vegetarians should read this. But over time, it becomes more omnivorous in all the wrong ways. Most distressing is the idea that vegetarianism is some kind of new fad, and only a few crackpots have been vegetarians in previous times. Oddly, he selects Gandhi as one of these rare few, when in fact, Buddhists, Hindus, and other peoples of the East have been vegetarians for thousands of years. And even the Jews and Muslems refuse to eat pig--an animal that the author ends up hunting. His defense of the crackpot grass-fed rancher is also pretty unnerving. I say this as an omnivore. Not just that he comes out with some absurd generalizations and half-truths, but that his writing style comes off as very college freshman. Or maybe Eggers-ish. To be fair, his assessments of the corn industry, factory farming, industrial organic, and some other subjects have a ring of truth. ( )
My first thought after a few chapters was that this was poorly named--vegetarians should read this. But over time, it becomes more omnivorous in all the wrong ways. Most distressing is the idea that vegetarianism is some kind of new fad, and only a few crackpots have been vegetarians in previous times. Oddly, he selects Gandhi as one of these rare few, when in fact, Buddhists, Hindus, and other peoples of the East have been vegetarians for thousands of years. And even the Jews and Muslems refuse to eat pig--an animal that the author ends up hunting. His defense of the crackpot grass-fed rancher is also pretty unnerving. I say this as an omnivore. Not just that he comes out with some absurd generalizations and half-truths, but that his writing style comes off as very college freshman. Or maybe Eggers-ish. To be fair, his assessments of the corn industry, factory farming, industrial organic, and some other subjects have a ring of truth. ( )
This book was published in 2007, so the message he was putting across has been heard by just about everyone who will be affected by it. That being said, it's still a great book and well worth the time. His description of life on a farm where everything is an interlocking piece of a large puzzle is worth the price of admission alone. ( )
Pollan follows food from origin to table through four different chains. Industrial/organic, grass fed and hunted/gathered. There is a lot I’d probably rather not know. He gives a fairly balanced look at the philosophical underpinnings of the act of eating ( )
But for Pollan, the final outcome is less important than the meal's journey from the soil to the plate. His supermeticulous reporting is the book's strength — you're not likely to get a better explanation of exactly where your food comes from.
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For Judith and Isaac
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For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we est by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the water.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Readers Edition, and The Omnivore's Dilemma for Kids are three separate works. Please do not combine them.
ISBN 0606087230 is for The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Readers Edition
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What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous landscape, what's at stake becomes not only our own and our children's health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth. Pollan follows each of the food chains--industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves--from the source to the final meal, always emphasizing our coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. The surprising answers Pollan offers have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us.--From publisher description.
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