How America Decides What to Eat in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Omnivores, along with other types of living things, have a body that is specifically designed to eat specific foods. Our human teeth allow us to tear the meat, but we can also grind the plants. Our body is also used to digest certain species, "only from plants and other nutrients that can only be obtained from animals" is necessary (Pollan 289). Our quality as an omnibus is the reason that there are so many people all over the world. For human beings and other omnivores, if there is a natural disaster that causes the source of food to be eliminated, we can simply find the food and eat other foods elsewhere.

In his book "Dilemma of omnivorous meals, natural history of four meals", Michael Poland records human problems related to our food chain, which affects the quality of food we eat . At the time of writing, Pollan visited every level of the food production chain as a research reporter. He started with an industrial farm in Iowa State and a farm in Kansas State, an organic farm in Virginia state and a slaughterhouse, and finally arrived at a supermarket where all of us participate. He not only follows the ecological path of food from planting to consumption, but also follows the path of evolution of our diet for many years. Pollan pointed out that the plight of omnivores is how much we choose as a human, but there is little information on where we should eat and where our food comes from.

Michael Poland 's dilemma of omnivorous animal: the natural history of four meals "published by Penguin in 2006 is an examination by the author of the overall eating habits of Americans. Polan achieved this theme by treating food as a naturalist. He pointed out that our food all come from plants, animals, fungi. In the first part of the book, Polan summarized the corn industry. Corn and oil form the core of the food industry. Corn is a by-product and oil is brought to our table as fossil fuel. Poland analyzed McDonald 's lunch. The origin of the meal is in the corn field of Iowa Province, focusing mainly on eating corn and eating hamburgers. Oil used to cook French fries is also from corn. In milkshake and soda water, the syrup used is also derived from corn. To my surprise, maize is also one of 38 ingredients of chicken macnugget. Any reasonable reader will ask, "How is this possible?"

Michael Poland's "Dilemma of omnivorous meals: Natural history of four meals ..." is probably the best book I have read this year. The subject of this prestigious research is not about our own omnivorous (ie all eating) human, but about two plants and one ecosystem. Polan is in a love-hate relationship with very successful plants that have entered into "corn", meat (as feed), corn syrup, and almost all other processed foods. "Umbrella planted maize" in the U.S. agribusiness reversed a diversified self-sufficiency farm based on the idea of ​​old pastures called "grass" and herbivores. In the "forest", Poland is thinking about the earliest way to get food, ie hunting and gathering. If you eat, you should read this book. - Newsdays