Omnivore's Dilemma By Michael Pollan

For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap and tasty. Kenner explores the topic from all viewpoints, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who has been urging for more severe standards since E-coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son. Challenges are to create regulations that might prevent such deaths. Such…

spend five dollars on a meal at a fast food restaurant, rather than a piece of fruit at the supermarket. Although they know the health risk they are taking they have very few options that will accommodate their busy life schedule and expenses. Michael Pollan emphasizes in the movie Food Inc, that “We’ve skewed our food system toward the ‘bad’ calories” and that we should work towards a day where we walk into a supermarket where the fresh fruits and veggies cost less than the…

Bonney R. J. (2006). Farm animal welfare at work. Applied Animal Behavior Science, 100(1-2), 140-147. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2006.04.007 In this article, Roland James Bonney discusses the problems associated with animal welfare on farms. Bonney references studies done from the Food Animal Initiative (2001) regarding their approach to improving animal welfare on farms, using ethical treatment and science to understand and develop practical solutions to solve supply standards and improvement of…