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Introduction to Omnivore’s Dilemma

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 Introducon to Omnivore’s Dilemma

Most of us do not expect the books on food to have big ideas like spirituality, oppression and

freedom. But the writer Michael Pollan has always challenged the expectaons of the readers.

This can be known from this latest two recent books, The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense

of Food, where in the writer celebrates the pleasure of eang. In these two books the author

has something very important about how the food industry, the government, marketers and

even Pollan’s colleague journalists have understood the process of spreading the food on our

tables which has turned out into a gradually more dysfunconal enterprise.

The author has observed that with the help of proper insight, gentle &rmness, and even some

well-placed humor, the author observes how the process of modern farming is at war and it

dictates the laws of nature. The author also describes how the nutrional policies of the

government have been challenged against the scien&c pracce and how the consumers have

started feeling that eang is no longer an enjoyment to it seems to have more of guilt and

anxiety. The book wri(en by Pollan has a persistent core of hope.

• What is the dilemma for omnivore?

There are many creatures who eat di)erent variety of things same as the human and the

queson what one should eat is a tricky queson and it has to be fought out with anxiety. This

problem is not for the persons who are specialist eaters for e.g. the cow is fond of eang grass

and hence there is no problem in determining what they would eat and what they do not

prefer.

These eang habits come from their genes and hence one need not worry about the same.

This same is the case with the koala bear: they look if the smell is like a eucalyptus leaf, then it

is lunch for the bear but rest of the things in the nature is not the lunch for the koala bear. But

those who are omnivorous then it is a complicated problem; mainly for the natural foods and

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one should not leave the menon the supermarket which provides so many o)ers out of them

some are good for the body which some could be hazardous to your life.

The human beings have come out with a whole lot of cognive tools which help understand

dilemma of the omnivorous. They are with big brains with &ne powers of recognion as well

as memory to help keep all the potenal foods and poisons properly in the body. But the most

important tool in order to deal with the challenges of being omnivorous is the culture; there

are various tradions of food and eang guide which helps in we have tradions around food

and eang that guide us in our food selecon and preparaon—one should have proper

knowledge about cooking for the food for e.g. one can eat morels, but a/er cooking them and

the mushrooms should be eaten in a proper way. The koala bear has in their gene, which

explains what is good and what is bad the same way the human have taboos, mothers, and

naonal cuisines.

• Is food more than a health issue?

The author Wendell Berry said, “Eang is an agricultural act.” But I would say that it is an

environmental and a polical act as well, since it depends on how to eat and what to eat

which is the most sought a/er food in the natural world. There is nothing else which has a

deep e)ect on the health of the earth and do not forget that it is our bodies which have more

e)ect if you do not the right food. I would also like to menon that food is a naonal security

issue.

More than one-&/h of the fossil fuel grown and consumed is used for growing, processing and

shipping our food—and this is de&nitely more than what we consume while driving our cars.

We cannot change the level of energy and global warming unless and unl we change our food

habits. The next main reason to consider food as a naonal security issue is the centralized

food system in which the food system where in more than 90 percent of our food chain passes

through various corporate hands; and the food is very vulnerable to contaminaon and

adulteraon and it could be by some outside terrorists or microbes. The main thing that is very

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Introduction to Omnivore's Dilemma Most of us do not expect the books on food to have big ideas like spirituality, oppression and freedom. But the writer Michael Pollan has always challenged the expectations of the readers. This can be known from this latest two recent books,?The Omnivore's Dilemma?and?In Defense of Food, where in the writer celebrates the pleasure of eating. In these two books the author has something very important about how the food industry, the government, marketers and even Pollan's colleague journalists have understood the process of spreading the food on our tables which has turned out into a gradually more dysfunctional enterprise. The author has observed that with the help of proper insight, gentle firmness, and even some well-placed humor, the author observes how the process of modern farming is at war and it dictates the laws of nature. The author also desc ...
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