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The Omnivore's Dilemma

The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

By Michael Pollan

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| eBook | 9781408807255

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What shall we have for dinner? Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmedContinue

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The Omnivore's Dilemma By Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan rates America's dinner menuDelving deep into the murky underwaters of the modern agricultural complex, The Omnivore's Dilemma is not the kind of book you'll want to read with a fast-food burger and fries in your hand. As the book trace ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Sun, 12 Sep 2010

10 Reviews

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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 10, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

You are what you eat...

A very interesting book for everybody who wants to know where our food comes from and why we eat what we eat. The first chapter about the agri-industrial business in the United States is really scary. All I can do is hope that here in Europe things aren't as bad! But of course that is just a questio ... (continue)

A very interesting book for everybody who wants to know where our food comes from and why we eat what we eat. The first chapter about the agri-industrial business in the United States is really scary. All I can do is hope that here in Europe things aren't as bad! But of course that is just a question of time - if we keep on only judging food by its direct cost. Pollan argues (very convincingly) that there are lots of other costs to be calculated with - to the environment, to animals, to health.
But he does this with lots of humour, especially the final chapter about Pollan hunting, gathering and foraging his way to a meal is really funny!

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Linda Wilke said on Sep 14, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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 Nov 1, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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 30, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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

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ProfT said on Jun 30, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

interesting, but...

the writing style is journalistic and painfully repetitious. Inside these 400 pages, there is a very good 250-pages book screaming to get out. I guess this is the fate of American books...
The repetitions manage to water down some compelling, apparently well researched and well written pieces ... (continue)

the writing style is journalistic and painfully repetitious. Inside these 400 pages, there is a very good 250-pages book screaming to get out. I guess this is the fate of American books...
The repetitions manage to water down some compelling, apparently well researched and well written pieces on the morality and the consequences of eating (or not) certain categories of good.
I particularly enjoyed the hunting-related change of opinion, when the writer finds on his face the same stupid grin he used to hate in photographs of Hemingway.

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baffo said on Feb 16, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback