kickerdad - , reviewed on 8/30/2023 + 114 more book reviews

Ever wonder why your tomatoes taste like cardboard? or the chicken at your grandma's house as a kid tasted so much better than your dinner last night? Ever wonder where the products you put in your grocery cart come from, particularly meats? Michael Pollan, in "The Omnivore's Dilemma" provides an evolutionary sketch of how our eating has evolved, then traces sources of our food today from creation to ingestion. He tracks beef raised in an industrial setting, free-range and grass-fed chicken from a polycultural farm, and wild boar that he killed personally. But this isn't simply the documentation about a carnivores greatest delights. It is about a man who desires to understand the cultural implications of the food he eats - not just the social or political rhetoric - but the moral and economic impacts. And we shouldn't be surprised about the governments impact and intervention into what we eat and how we eat. [4/5]

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