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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

What we're reading... The Omnivore's Dilemma

Here's an excerpt from http://michaelpollan.com/books/the-omnivores-dilemma/

The Omnivore’s Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves? The omnivore’s dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What’s at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.

© 2010 Michael Pollan. All rights reserved.


Finish this article and learn more about Michael Pollan and The Omnivore's Dilemma here.
Discussion and more posts coming soon!

-Jacob Hambrick

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