The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals Thorndike Press large print nonfiction

by Michael Pollan

Hardcover, 711 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2006 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-7862-8952-3
OCLC Number:: 70158447

(11 reviews)

In this groundbreaking book, one of America's most fascinating writers turns his mind to this seemingly straightforward question. The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but, according to Pollan, how we answer it today may well determine our very survival as a species. To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us -- industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves -- from the source to the final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating. --back cover

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Cheri reviewed The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Review of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

This book has been on my shelf for 13 years. I finally dusted it off, literally, and got down to reading. It has forced me, as I knew it would, to yank my head out of the sand with regard to food, where it comes from, what its production does to the animals and the earth, and a few other things I had happily chosen to forget since my vegetarian days.

While not a book for everyone, I found it informative and sometimes entertaining. I'm not quite ready to give up meat but I have found a local butcher shop that sells farm-raised, grass and pasture-fed animals. So there's a start.