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|  | Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Rating:  639 reviews
Sales Rank: 45
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 464
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0143038583
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.12
EAN: 9780143038580
ASIN: 0143038583
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
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 Eye opening reading May 25, 2010
AnaBelaCS (Round Rock, TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just finished reading this book. I would highly recommend it to anyone, vegetarians and carnivores, vegans and flexitarians, in fact anyone who eats, specially in the USA as the facts portrayed in this book mainly apply to us. My outlook on organic, being a vegetarian (which I am) and eating meat has been altered in a very positive way by this book and I like that. No time for reading? Then watch kind of a shortcut to it on "Food Inc". Buen provecho!
 A *most-likely should, you'd probably be glad you did* read May 23, 2010
crinklecuts
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Omnivore's Dilemma is an educational and entertaining story about modern food production. It asks the questions: where does our food come from, how is it made, what are the ramifications of the current food production system. Turns out there are three systems: industrial, industrial organic, and organic. The author examines each thoroughly, providing the reader with fascinating looks at each system - the monoculture mega-farm, the factory farm, the industrial organic (or industrial-lite) farm, and the truly organic, self-sufficient and sustaining farm. The history, emergence, and modern dependence on corn was eye-openeing. As were the disadvantages of this system apropos of public health, pollution, and tax-payer dollars.
I withheld a 5 star rating because the book, much like my review, is too long.
The author spends the last fifth of the book exploring what it takes to prepare one personally-hunted/gathered meal. Although he prefaces the impracticality of this spectacle explicitly, he still spends too much time philosophising and/or lecturing about the anthropological "reality" attained through hunting, the commandments for traipsing around in the woods looking for mushrooms, and the proof-like arugment that eating meat is ethically, socailly, and spiritually acceptable. Yawn.
 A Waste of Paper May 14, 2010
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3 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is a long journey through many accusations, and little real substance. Michael Pollan devotes the first half of the book to criticizing the corporate agricultural machines of Cargill, ADM, and Monsanto, and the politics (subsidies) behind it all, but then weakly offers the solution as independent smaller farms utilizing a grass-based system versus the giant corporate machines utilizing a corn-based system. The fact that a McDonalds meal is actually 60% carbon molecules derived from corn doesn't tell me much. Is a carbon molecule derived from corn any less healthy for me than a carbon molecule derived from wheat, or from grass? A balanced diet in either case is probably what is essential. All conjecture, no medical facts or statistics. He then spends the remaining half of the book on his noble quest of killing a wild boar, and picking mushrooms, for his all natural "gatherers meal."
A must read if your interested in food May 9, 2010
Run (Newbury, MA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a must read if you are interested in the food you eat, where comes from and whose behind it getting to your plate. Micheal Pollan crafts a great read.
LOVE the book, hate the Kindle edition May 7, 2010
Mikhailovna (New York, New York)
4 out of 14 found this review helpful
Bought the actual book, then got the Kindle edition, switched between the two until I accidentally discovered that the Kindle edition is different (shorter, I think). What gives? I don't see "abridged" in Kindle edition info - are all Kindle books shorter? Did I miss something? Sorry to give Pollan one star, he and this book definitely deserve all five, but this is kind of annoying/frustrating.
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