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This book is an eye opening read about our food system and the American view of food. I think everyone should read this book. 5/5

If you haven‘t considered going plant-based before, you will. To see the undeniable truth will change how you think about food.

Pretty good intro book about eating a bit better I suppose

Some subsections were interesting, but others are more difficult to get through.

100% recommend.

Micheal Pollan talks about factory farming and explores the industrial food chain. He explains how fast food and soda can be so cheap but quality food cost more. Corn is the secret. He then explores farms and ranches that ethically raise crops and animals for food. He finishes by hunting, foraging and growing a whole meal.

If you care about what you‘re eating, the environment, and what foods you may want to avoid this is a book that may change your life. I read it years ago and the knowledge I gained I use everyday, no kidding.

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I don‘t think I‘ve ever read a book that could be classified as motivational, but I‘ve found these books very helpful when it comes to figuring out how and what to eat.

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The Omnivore‘s Dilemma is a fascinating book full of information about the American food industry.

The Obesity Code is a recent read for me, and I‘m still trying to incorporate some of what I learned into my routine.

#bookfitnesschallenge

Been making it a priority to grow, forage and fish for more of my food. Here's my first batch of purple tatters 😁🥔

Took me quite a while to read through this one. I started and stopped a couple times. Even though, I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned so much. I‘m planning to give it to my friend that owns a huge feedlot!

I loved this a lot! I love books that take a very specific aspect of environmentalism and dive deep into it. I feel I get now how good small scale, ethical food that we appreciate fully can be. It‘s wonderful to not just be outraged about factory farming and industrial food stuff, but to actually appreciate what we can aim for and what nourishing ourselves can be like. Definitely recommend to any frustrated environmentalists

This book is an interesting treatise on healthy eating. It‘s a classic, I may consider re-reading. Sad times we live in when it takes a journalist and not a dietician to show us how to eat healthy.

This yummy cornucopia offers insight into food consumption in the 21st century, describing three important food chains that sustain us all: industrial, organic, and hunter-gatherer. As we search for chicken in a McNugget drive-by, browse leafy greens at the local farmers market, or happily rummage for roots and berries in fields and meadows, Pollan encourages us to examine the ethical responsibilities and political ramifications of food selection.

This book starts with such a humble goal yet so far ranging. What we put on our table and how is deeply embedded in our relationship with the Earth.

I have listened to it already but I am diving back in with the Kindle edition and finding quotes.

Before coffee, that is, not that there was a drop of it to be had on this farm. I couldn‘t recall the last time I‘d even attempted to do anything consequential before breakfast, or before #caffeine at the very least.
#QuotsyMar19 #31DaysOfNonFiction

This is the book I feel has the most value for the world and in particular the US. It‘s changed my way of thinking about eating, shopping, cooking and farming forever. IMHO I think it should be required reading.

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I thought Pollan‘s examination of various food chains - industrial, organic, beyond organic, and gathered - was thoughtful and personal and balanced. Though difficult, I increasingly believe that examining where our food comes from is an imperative act. Food affects us all. I highly recommend this even-handed look at the current state of it.

Today, it‘s all about #audiochores, and recommitting to a (mostly) vegetarian diet thanks to Michael Pollan. 😳

I don‘t read a lot of nonfiction, and even less food-related books, so picking my favorite food book is super easy. 😃

I listened to the audiobook (read by Scott Brick) last year and was completely fascinated and fairly grossed out. This is important stuff about where our food really comes from in the US, and Pollan‘s efforts to make his own food are educational and interesting.

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I‘m sneaking in time where I can! #24in48

This was fascinating, informative, and not at all what I expected. I approached it as food writing, when Pollan is at least as concerned with economics and agricultural science as he is with dining. His prose also veers far closer to academic than popular, which made this a slow read. Prepare yourself for long paragraphs, narrow margins, and a degree of narrative distance even when Pollan actively participates in food production.

Gonna try to finish THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA before I start another novel. Duffy has lent me his support.

Gonna read a bit more of THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA while my turkey chili cooks. Maybe I can get through five whole pages!

Because this book? Is really good, but SO SLOW. It's dense and scientific, and Pollan takes a distinctly academic stance on paragraph divisions so there's little white space on each page. It's taken me for fucking ever to hit Chapter 12.

1. Omnivores Dilemma by Michael Pollan ( life changing for me)
2. Romance
3. A black 7 yr old formerly feral kitty named “Smirk”
4. Just over 6,100

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It feels a bit wrong to read THE OMNIVORE's DILEMMA over lunch, but this is the reading time I've got sooooo....

1. Omnivores Dilemma -Pollan
2. Been to London, but I‘d love to see the English countryside

@kellyann28 #giveaway

Something to feast on with my morning coffee: “Today it takes between 7-10 calories of #FossilFuels energy to delivery 1 calorie of food energy to an #American plate.” Even organic. Despite all our good intentions it‘s a struggle to make the right #foodchoices.

I loved this book. Warning, it's long, & a bit tedious at different points. But the amount of energy and research Pollan put in to writing this book is worthy of serious respect. He examines conventionally produced food, organic food (both Big Organic and local, slow food), and traditional hunter/gatherer foods. Pollan definitely provides a solid foundation from which we can continue to learn about and examine our food choices.

So is an industrial organic food chain finally a contradiction in terms? It's hard to escape the conclusion that it is.... The inspiration for organic was to find a way to feed ourselves more in keeping with the logic of nature, to build a food system that looked more like an ecosystem that would draw it's fertility and energy from the sun. To feed ourselves otherwise was 'unsustainable.'

And yet, and yet... 😖 Pollan leaves no stone unturned in his examination and comparison between industrial organic and conventional farming.

Quoting Michael Pollan.

Yep.

This feels...dirty...to me. And like they've completely missed the point.

In Howard's agronomy, science is mostly a tool for describing what works and explaining why it does. As it happens, in the years since Howard wrote, science has provided support for a great many of his unscientific claims: Plants grown in synthetically fertilized soils are less nourishing than ones grown in composted soils; such plants are more vulnerable to diseases and insect pests; polycultures are more productive and less prone to disease

The feedlot is a city built upon America's mountain of surplus corn--or rather, corn plus the various pharmaceuticals a ruminant must have if it is to tolerate corn. Yet, having started out from Mr. Naylor's farm, I understood that the corn on which this place runs is implicated in a whole other set of ecological relationships...the fossil fuel it takes to grow all that corn.

In fact, when animals live on farms the very idea of waste ceases to exist; what you have instead is a closed ecological loop..a solution. One of the most striking things animal feedlots do (to paraphrase Wendell Berry) is to take this elegant solution & neatly divide it into two new problems: a fertility problem on the farm (which must be remedied with chemical fertilizers) and a pollution problem on the feedlot (which is seldom remedied at all).

The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.... Eating puts us in touch with all that we share with the other animals, and all that sets us apart. It defines us.

1 Model horses or a jewelry making kit
2 Omnivore‘s Dilemma
3 Been on the dark side long enough to look back wistfully on the gate to it
4 Literally within 1000‘ (and I don‘t live next to a hospital!)
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Tim Flannery‘s review is headed ‘We‘re Living on Corn!‘ . I haven‘t read this but I liked Michael Pollan‘s book about food rules - he‘s rigorous but sensible.
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Husband built me a bookshelf!!! ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍

This book was published more than 10 years ago, but is still packed full of timely and relevant info about American industrial agriculture. I‘ve read a lot about this topic in the last 10-15 years, so this wasn‘t new information for me, but it‘s still very upsetting and icky.

Michael Pollan is brilliant, though... I would very much like to share a meal with him and pick his brain. Oh and the audio is read by Scott Brick 😍😍😍

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Currently listening...

and freaking out, as I knew I would. 😱

My all time favorite book is on sale through BookBub today! Life changing, educational, the author is my hero.
I've recommended this more often than any other book. Ever!

Congratulations @Booksandcooks ! Such a well deserved accomplishment! I will read a book in any format. I use my Kindle and iPad for reading a lot, especially for library books. So much easier! I listen to audiobooks while walking. If forced to choose though I still love physical books, especially hardcovers,the most. #6666giveaway
(Photo was taken today while having celebratory 4th of July drinks. I love San Francisco)

If we hadn't already bought a steer to grass raise on our homestead...I would have made my husband get one after tracking the stupidity of the corn commodies on this country.

After the first part on industrial food processing (which totally made me paranoid and not want to eat at all for 2 days) despite the writing style, which flows and makes the reader understand the information, I continued to read but When milk is more expensive than pop, when you can have cheap meat but that meat kills you, this is where I can't read anymore. To save my sanity somehow. Most amazing book I DNF. #maybookflowers #fruits

An extremely random assortment of books with #fruit on the cover. #maybookflowers