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	• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan Penguin, 2007 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 627 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Omnivore's Dilemma

Recommended to me by a friend, this book will change my dietary habits for life. Sometimes it gets a bit "over the top" and some of the wording gets a bit "over my head", yet the content and the references to the literature are outstanding. Over all I find the book entrancing, and though I am only 1/3 rd through it, I spend almost all my "free" time reading it.

Food industry: A Wolf in Sheep's clothing!

This book will rock your food consuming world. In the name of capitalism the US food industry has worked hard to engineer food that does not satisfy your body's needs but rather makes you crave more food! The genetically altered and hormone enhanced corn, meat, etc is killing Americans at increasingly higher rates! This book lifts the veil on how food is produced and the scary truth behind what we are being sold. We need to revolt! Michael Pollan does an outstanding job in this book and if you read it all the way through you cannot ignore the need for a national food revolution! Get on board!

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Lots of information- interesting/ fantasy

This is one of those books that takes you down a fantasy of "sustainability" for food -- and plays the usual characters in their usual roles: McDonald's is bad and local, fresh, and organic is best.

It was not an original book, it was not an original concept, and the journey left us with no satisfaction - other than I wish I lived close to Polyface farms.

It is not a book that I would recommend for the science, and yet the fantasy in the book isn't worth reading for the fiction. But it does provide a pseudo intellectual guide for some who seek a bully pulpit without much substance

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Insightful and important read

I already knew quite a bit about the ubiquity of corn and the issues with our food supply from watching King Corn and Food, Inc., and doing some other reading, but this book was a much more in-depth account of how our food is grown, made, and processed. His book is well-written and insightful. I don't think Pollan casts any corporation into the role of villain as some reviewers have said. His book provides information and the readers are, of course, free to choose on which foods to spend their money. (I'm sure I'll still eat at McDonald's occasionally.) I think more people would be appalled if they knew more about the food they eat and they'd change their eating habits and demand higher quality food.

I'm glad I read it - and I'm glad I live close to Polyface Farms!

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Good Book but author needs to "get real"

This book is required reading for my 12 year old granddaughter over the summer holiday! I read the book myself. It is very well presented. However, if this book is aimed at pre-teens/teens, it needs to be shortened. It is a rather scary daunting book for a kid to read about the food he/she has been eating all their lives and will continue to eat (not too much choice about EATING is there?). I can't get her to read it = not yet, anyway but it is an interesting very well presented book but FOR ADULTS.

A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us? whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed?he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.

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