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		List Price: $16.00		Publisher: Penguin Salesrank: 33 Released: 28 August, 2007
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Nutritious Reading
I recommend this for book for anyone interested in getting a good general feel for how food production currently works and exploring ideas of sustainable food production. The book is well written and provides enough startling facts and anecdotes to keep one reading.

A Wake Up Call
Like An Inconvenient Truth, The Omnivore’s Dilemma is a wake up call to the realities of the present day and a warning that our current lifestyles are unsustainable.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma brought to mind another book–the classic, [[ASIN:0142000663 The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)]]by John Steinbeck. Published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath took place during The Great Depression. I recently re-read the book and was struck by how connected to the earth most Americans used to be.

In the past two hundred years, America has gone from a mostly rural population to a country where the majority of the nation lives in cities, suburbs or exurbs. In “the olden days,”people farmed, hunted and fished; they made their own clothing, food and shelter. People were attached to the land and to nature. In The Grapes of Wrath we see how many farming families in the Midwest were forced out of their homes. Through one character’s experience, we are shown how the pain of leaving his beloved land and home was so devastating that it literally killed him.

Contrast that to how disconnected so many of us are to the food we eat, the environment and the welfare of animals today. We actually need a book to tell us where our food comes from!

I finished this book with a renewed commitment to growing my own vegetables and for purchasing as much food as I can from local farmers.

Author of the award winning book,[[ASIN:0977963306 Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet]]

A must read
Pollan manages to pack a lot of information into his four categories of food production, and still keep it very readable. The section on the beef industry is not for the faint of heart, but ought to be required reading for anyone who buys supermarket meat. He makes his points, but he doesn’t preach.