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Los Angeles
A review of this — 1 year ago
this is one very special piece of work. here is the anthropologist-journalist-writer at his best pulling a piece of work that gives as many answers as it leaves questions in the reader. this is the sort of book that changes the way you see things. no visit to the supermarket will be the same. for days or weeks or (hopefully) months, you’ll think about every thing that goes into your mouth, the consumed, the consumer, linked in the eternal dance of the cosmos, the industry, the country, land, and death.
Michael Pollan prepares four meals, and he traces the ingredients to their origin. The stories he tells are marvelous, and the effort that went into making them and being part of then (in the purest anthropological of senses) is commendable. from the visit to the industrial corn farmer to going hunting for wild boar. good arguments around animal rights activism. and great insights into the industrial food chain.