AP Biology Book Report: The Omnivore's Dilemma

Finally, this four hundred and eleven page book is finished! I tackeled it all, so let me now reflect on it. Overall, the story was quite i...

1 . PLANNING THE MENU A neighboring cherry tree: the source of Pollan's dessert. "Perfect?! A dangerous boast, you must be thi...

1. (NO TITLE) "The mysteries of germination and flowering and fruiting engaged me from an early age, and the fact that by planting and...

1. A WALK IN THE WOODS "Walking with a loaded rifle in an unfamiliar forest bristling with the signs of your prey is thrilling." ...

1. THE STEAKHOUSE DIALOGUES At the time that Pollan was writing this book he was still a meat eater. But after owning a steer, helping to k...

1. GOOD TO EAT, GOOD TO THINK Monarch butterflies don't have to deal with the omnivore's dilemma . " The blessings of the...

1. SERIOUS PLAY Pollan was quite scared to go hunting for the meat and gathering the fungi for his last meal. He was a novice hunter and wa...

 Ah the forest, a place of. . . food. After Joel's sublime locally grown meal, it seems hard to believe that there was any other foo...

The third meal: Grass fed. After a week on the Salatin farm, Pollan will get his grass-fed chicken that Joel so politely refused to Fed-Ex h...

1. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON "It didn't surprise me to read that the typical item of food on an American's plate travels some fifteen...

1. (Oddly enough, there's actually only one subsection to this chapter, but it was labeled one anyways. Pollan must have been as excited...

"The sanitation crew" 1. TUESDAY MORNING Chores at Polyface begin promptly with the sun, at about five in the morning. Pollan d...

1. MONDAY "Maybe we're just too big to see what's going on down there in any detail." Grass. A gorgeous sea of green. And ...

1. SUPERMARKET PASTORAL  What makes this TV dinner organic? "Cage free," "humanely raised," "free range,...

1. GREEN ACRES Meet Joel and his grass fed cows. Pollan found himself on Joel Salatin's farm on the first day of summer, along with...

We just finished section one, and meal one: the industrial food Americans have grown to love, especially in fast food form. Now we begin the...

I'm lovin' it? "The meal at the end of the industrial food chain that begins in an Iowa cornfield is prepared by McDonalds...

HFC S In this chapter, Pollan equates our processed food and obesity issues with the national drinking binge of the 19th century. All oth...

1. TAKING THE KERNEL APART: THE MILL A wet mill: where corn turns into... EVERYTHING Most of the corn we eat enters our bodies as broken...

 Poky Feeders: Population 37,000  1. CATTLE METROPOLIS  Kansas: Imagine a state filled with dozens, even hundreds of feedlo...