The Omnivore's Dilemma Book Report

Encumbered by highly advanced agricultural inventions, the American diet has evolved into a dilemma producing detrimental health affects for our nation. While a plethora of food choices, from chicken nuggets to Twinkies, may appear to be a dietary utopia; the technological advancements in the food industry have produced food-like products rather than authentic food. This nation-wide eating disorder has kept Americans in a cyclical process of attempting to achieve a thin figure while still gaining pounds. Through the course of his book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan investigates four meals: a meal from McDonalds eaten in the car, an organic based meal from Whole Foods, a meal from an organic, sustainable farm, and lastly, a meal that Pollan hunted and gathered himself. In his book, Pollan confronts the mystery around the American diet and analyzes the …show more content…
When European settlers arrived at the New World, corn was the quintessence that allowed them to survive. Now, due to its versatile nature, the crop is in almost every food product one could imagine; even in a main component in our plastic. In this section, Pollan dissects Not only does the author address the moral issues of the development of corn but the explains the chemical detriments the planting of corn causes.
After watching the documentary Food Inc., a film in which Michael Pollan was a key interviewee, I was horrified by the highly technical method in which our food is processed. Furthermore, learning about the corporate monopoly over farmers practically dissuaded me from ever buying from a big chain supermarket again. With my eyes uncovered to the ways of the food industry, I desired to gain more information about the modern food industry and what other food processing methods they are hiding from the public. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, proved to be a wonderful supplement to my