Summary Of The Omnivore's Dilemma By Michael Pollan

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After reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma CH 8-10 by Michael Pollan, I am shocked by Salatin’s grass farming system, which follows the ecological balance by his intelligent ideas. In Salatin’s farming system, they make animals process the manure, and the animals cannot only absorb the nutrition from the manure, but also it provides the natural nitrogen to the soils which contributes to the soils a lot. The Polyface farm is the original ecology farm, which is not rely on the chemical synthesis and the cheap corn. Comparing to the Feedlot chapter, the Polyface farm seems so much clean and the air is so fresh because they slaughter the animals by hand and there is no wall in the slaughterhouse so that they can utilize the sunshine to kill the virus.

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