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    growing food and its journey from the farm to my dinner table. When I found The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan‚ its description captivated my interest and I immediately picked it up and read the first page. I realized then that this book

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    In the final section of the book‚ author Michael Pollan attempts to prepare a meal by gathering all of the ingredients himself. In the chapter called Forager‚ Michael talks about how he wants his meal to feature all three edible kingdoms: animal‚ vegetable‚ and fungi. He will hunt‚ gather‚ or grow all the ingredients needed for his final meal. In the end he makes a salad out of the greens from his own garden‚ and makes bread using wild yeast. He feels that this meal will help us to “reconnect us

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    Michael Pollan in 2006‚ published a work that has to some degree changed the way that people eat‚ or at the very least attempted to change the way that we think about the food we eat. (Shea 54) Pollan demonstrates through fundamentally modern rhetoric the relationship that people‚ and more specifically American’s have with food and how very distant we are from it. ("History‚ Old Favorites in" B08) To some degree Pollan‚ others like him and internationally challenging food shortages and even worse

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    In Defence of Food 1. The one idea in the introduction that was intriguing to me was Pollan’s recommendation to “eat food”. At the very beginning of the introduction when Pollan said that we should “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants” (pg. 1) I was surprised to know that he considers meat as a side dish‚ than as a main. He is encouraging America to eat MOSTLY plants is a lot more realistic than encouraging America to eat ONLY plants. 2. Nutritionism is the idea that the nutritional

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    Part A: Writer Michael Pollan discusses in his chapter “The Potato” from his book The Botany of Desire‚ the advantages and disadvantages of the development of the “Newleaf”‚ and also touches on hopes of perhaps discovering whether‚ why and how this “Newleaf” alternative may alter the relationship between people and food. Michael Pollan’s “The Potato” is well expressed adding an insight to consumers. Part B: A world filled with falsely represented genetically modified food. That very thought may

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    dream. Most people work long hours and eat on the fly with very little thought to what‚ or where‚ the food they have purchased came from. The reason food is so inexpensive has not been a concern to the average American‚ but the article written by Michael Pollan “The Food Movement Rising” attempts to convince the people that it is time to remove the blinders and take an accounting of the situation that America finds itself in. With obesity at epic proportions‚ and preventable diseases like diabetes on

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    duced more problems than solutions. For corporate corn interests like ADM and Cargill‚ the principal advantage.. In “The Processing Plant‚” Pollan attempts to track down what happens to the corn that is not sent to the feedlot. Much of it ends up in processing plants. Pollan distinguishes between a traditional mill‚ which grinds corn into flour to produce tortillas‚ and wet mills‚ which rely on a great deal of water‚ energy derived from fossil fuels‚ and steel tanks. These wet mills are

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    Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan ‚ is separated into three different sections Corn‚ Grass‚ and the Forest . I choose the Grass section honestly because I felt no one would pick it and because it was long and I wanted to be different . I did not think that this book was going to be all impressive . I don’t know if I was judging a book by it cover I am not sure but my thought process was how could be interesting about a book that had a chapters labeled Grass. In this chapter Pollan talks about the

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    The book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan is a book that breaks down where different foods really come from‚ what they are made of‚ and the people who spend their lives producing these products. I found myself putting this assignment off all week since it did not sound like a book that would interest me. The assignment was to review one of the three sections of the book and I chose part one: Industrial/Corn‚ where it is explained that corn is the main crop grown in America. Despite

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    Pollan kills childhood Chicken Nugget memories and breaks down walls‚ page by page You are what what you eat eats‚ so you are all walking corn chips People might say that you are what you eat‚ but we always see that as a figure of speech. After reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma‚ I no longer do. Shocking as it might seem‚ Pollan proves page by page that we literally are becoming what we eat. Well of course‚ I thought‚ if you eat a lot of French fries and hamburgers‚ you become fat

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