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  • This book is absolutely amazing. I don't think about food, especially corn and food from animals the same way. It became really important to know where my food comes from, even though that is a hard thing to do.

    

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• ― jbaglio said on May 9, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • A thought provoking exploration of food in America. What is our food, where does it come from and why do we select to eat what we select to eat along with some of the implications of our choice.

    

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• ― Philoserf said on Oct 31, 2009 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • The author does a fairly good job of outlining many of the issues with the modern food culture...particularly in America. He frequently misses some of the externalities of the more "natural" methods of food production, which would have made the book feel more well rounded...but he isn't as guilty of ... Continue

    The author does a fairly good job of outlining many of the issues with the modern food culture...particularly in America. He frequently misses some of the externalities of the more "natural" methods of food production, which would have made the book feel more well rounded...but he isn't as guilty of cherry picking his data as say, Michael Moore. A good read, but bear in mind that you are not getting quite the whole story.

    

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• ― Shiloh Madsen said on Oct 29, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • Time to go organic...but after this book...is that even safe?

    

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  • started out all right, but then it got too hard to get at the bits i cared about: the journalism. i really couldn't care less about his personal opinions of his 4 meals or his adventures with them.

    although if you are the type who would care, it's well written; the journalism and the personal ... Continue

    started out all right, but then it got too hard to get at the bits i cared about: the journalism. i really couldn't care less about his personal opinions of his 4 meals or his adventures with them.

    although if you are the type who would care, it's well written; the journalism and the personal are written together seamlessly.

    

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• ― rp (kokuran) said on Mar 26, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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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