Pollan moves on from his investigation of the industrial food chain and instead looks into alternative models of producing food for consumers. He concentrates on the organic food aspect. Pollan goes to Virginia to visit Joel Salatin’s polyface farm. He travels here to better understand organic food. Here Salatin believes that organic food is just another form of industrial produce. The difference with his farm that instead of being founded on corn it’s founded on grass. The cattle fertilize the grass and then the chickens eat the fertilized grass. This process allows Salatin to produce more healthier cattle’s without using any antibiotics or even chemicals. The grass is the root of everything he does, this type of energy is the basis of Polyface
