Michael Pollan has a great sense of humour and knows how to ponder a problem properly … from all sides. We mostly don’t stop and think about stuff to any depth or conclusion and I think we would be the better for it. Take this book whose subtitle is “a natural history of four meals”, Mr. Pollan looks at the food source of four meals. He’s like a dog with a very large bone … chews away at it until there isn’t anything left. Did I say he was funny? We do have a lot of choices about what we eat … hence the dilemma.
Our home is ostensibly vegan, maybe even what I would call ‘cranky vegan’. In addition to no meat, poultry, fish, and dairy, there is no processed food, sugar, added salt and rarely oils. So of course I wanted Mr. Pollan’s book to point in this direction. But of course he doesn’t, well, not really. He presents a load of information and leaves the decision making to the reader. Drats! Great read though.
This movie trailer is for Food Inc., a film that is a must see … all my favourite food folks show up here. We got it from Rogers so I’m sure it is found in your favourite video store too.
Two other amazing books that Mr. Pollan has written and copies sit on our bookshelf are:
