Omnivore's Dilemma By Michael Polland

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This essay will open people's eyes and make them see why the industrial organic food chain is the best food chain to feed all of america and how important it is to eat organic. The name of this book is called “The Omnivore's Dilemma” and it is by Michael Polland and this book makes the reader really think about what have we really been eating and where does our food come from and the reality of the whole food organization but out of all the food chains the best one to feed our nation is the industrial organic food chain, the reasons why this is, is because it gets away from all of the corn that is basically in all of our foods and also to get away from all the processed foods and fast foods and in this food chain they don't put the bad products …show more content…
Now you may be asking yourself, what's the difference between an organic feed lot and a normal feed lot? Well in a normal feed lot the farmers “make the cows stand in their own manure all day and feed them nothing but cown so that they can grow faster” this was stated in the book “The Omnivore's Dilemma” by Michael Polland and in an organic feed lot they do it like how they are supposed to, they feed them other foods than just corn and they don't stand in their own manure until they die, they grow by themselves, kind of like how the old farmers used to do it and it's a lot less crowded than the normal feedlots. In conclusion the industrial organic food chain is a lot more healthier than other food chains because in this food chain all of our stuff is grown organically and don't use the pesticides and fossil fuels and the chemical …show more content…
In conclusion there are some negatives to this food chain but there are so much more positives than negatives here also it's not much of a negative because this will be opening up more jobs for people who are unemployed and it will make america far more healthier and you wouldn't be starving from the decrease in food production. This information came from the website "Organic Farming Pros and Cons - Vision Launch." 29 Apr. 2015, http://visionlaunch.com/organic-farming-pros-and-cons/. Accessed 8 Jun. 2017. The industrial organic food chain is the best food chain to feed the nation because in this food chain we get away from all the corn that's in basically everything and all of the unhealthy processed foods and from all of the other terrible products that other food chains use. This viewpoint is worth consideration because it really opens people's eyes about what other food chains put in their food or where it comes from or where that

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