Pollan’s third and last meal is of the hunter-gatherer style or as Pollan puts it, the forest. Pollan’s main goal with this meal was to try and either harvests his own food, and/or grows his own food. He asks for some outside help by asking a guy by the name of Angelo Garro. Working in the field of agriculture is a tough way to grow food because it’s very labor intensive. Pollan asks, “Why go to all this trouble?” (Pollan, 2006, pg. 279) He simply responds with an easy answer, there isn’t enough game to sustain us, and there isn’t enough plants or mushrooms to sustain us either. Pollan explains that humans are able to eat many types of food while some animals have a strict diet of only one thing to eat. While that can be a good thing, it
