Omnivore's Dilemma By Michael Pollan

some of the leading causes of preventable death” (Overweight and Obesity). Obesity is not a healthy way of life for sure. Portion control can be an issue for a lot of people. Michael Pollan states, “Researchers have found that people (and animals) will eat up to 30 percent more if they are given larger portions” (Pollan and Chevat 82). The more food people are eating, the more weight they are gaining, and therefore, obesity is increasing. Although, another way we can solve this problem is…

Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, he writes about the journey that our food takes from the farm to our plates. The “omnivore’s dilemma” can be seen as humanity not thinking about everything that goes into making the foods that society enjoy, such as corn-based products. Our agriculture business produces tons of corn every year and corn is an important part of our society. His book is attempting to show the negative sides to the agriculture business that is in place today. Society…

themselves as participants in agriculture” (The Pleasures Of Eating 20). Both The Pleasures Of Eating by Wendell Berry and An Animal’s Place by Michael Pollan discuss the awareness of animals and society. Berry views the connection of growing your own food and appreciating where it comes from, but also the goal of the food industry: making consumers dependant. Pollan takes a different approach, However, is still…

Health and nutrition have been an essential part of life since the beginning of time, but more recently these topics are shared and examined more frequently than ever, especially in America. In Michael Pollan’s article “Our National Eating Disorder,” Claudia Kalb’s “Food News Blues,” and Karin Kratina’s “The Right Thing to Do?” it is made apparent that how we eat may be just as important as what we eat. These three authors make very valid points about American’s obsession with health fads and…

The final book that really spiked with my interest and stayed with me was Michael Pollan’s “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.” In this book, we followed Mr. Pollan as he explained the food that we eat in three parts, two of which we read. In Part 1 of the book I realized that our government has set us up to buy processed food in order to feed into the large companies that continue to control this nation’s economy. Consequently, as it does not care about our citizen…

Which Food Chain is Best to Feed America? Delicious. McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, and more. All of these fast food restaurants are all examples of the Industrial Food Chain. How often do you have fast food? Probably very often, because these restaurant’s foods taste amazing. Not only does the industrial food chain supply food to fast food restaurants, the food chain also supplies food to most of the super markets around America. The Industrial food chain is the best food chain to feed…

For my final site visit I chose to examine my own kitchen. Just one day in my kitchen and I start to realize that we have a definite dilemma in our family. It seems to me that a family should eat the same foods especially when it comes to dinner time, but unfortunately my family does not eat the same foods. Since my paper is due in the next few days and I spent all day preparing food in my kitchen I thought today December 13, 2014 was a perfect example of food production in the 21st Century…

"What is food to some, for others it is bitter poison", Lucretius, Roman poet (99 BC-55AC) If California were a country, with its population of nearly 40 million, it would be among the 30 most populous countries. The economic, political and cultural impact of the rest of California in the United States is enormous. It is for this reason that citizens' initiatives that are submitted to a referendum there and state legislation, for that matter, are so important. Of the 11 initiatives presented to…

What Diet is Most Effective? Hooper, B. "Popular Diets - What Is The Evidence?" Nutrition Bulletin 39.3 (2014): 284-289. Academic Search Complete. Web. 7 Nov. 2014. Dr. Hooper's article compares the weight lost rates of different diets and their health effects. By using random participants, Dr. Hooper was able to avoid biased results while conducting the experiment. Considering any outside factors that may interfere with the data, Paleolithic diets, fasting, and high/low protein diets are…

instead of growing our own staples. We have an intricate food chain, extending from the one farmer to hundreds of consumers (Pollan 34). We focus on providing cheap and abundant products, compared to lifestyles past. We are now struggling to find what to eat and relying on experts, instead of rely on our instincts like our ancestors, which could hurt us in the future. Pollan says that we also cannot go back to our past, due to the large population being…