The Trouble with Omnivores Explained in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma

What is an omnivoreous animal? Omnivorous animals are organisms that consume plants and animals to obtain nutrients. In The Omnivore's Dilemma of Michael Pollan, he explains the plight of omnivores as the title suggests. Among them, he explained how omnivores such as us are being eaten in today's ways. After he discussed the basic, he kept talking about how Americans and they ate. Pollan has divided his sentences into four major areas. Introduction of the plight of omnivores, explanation of how to eat, introduction of anxiety about meals, and explanation of how to decide an American meal.

The omnivorous dilemma of Michael Poland explains the daily struggle between omnivores and their food choices. Each time omnivores become hungry, plague of omnivores occurs. For every meal, I have a question "What do you want to eat?" Polan believes omnivores have three major food chains: industrial (maize), pastoral (grass) and personal (forest). I chose the third part of the personal omnivorous dilemma. A personal food chain is where hunter gathers find food in the forest. We will review Chapter 15 through Chapter 17, "Eaters", "Dilemma of omnivores" and "Ethics of eating animals".

I have studied this book since I read Michael Poland 's book "Dilemma of Omnibus" in November 2015 and paint mushrooms on sticky notes. From that moment, I became dizzy with reading, research, painting and book making, addicted to fungi of mushrooms and kingdoms.

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?"