factory farm

If Americans were to 'get Michael Pollan' about what they ate (or in other words—really think about what they consume), their eating habits would radically change. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma is billed as "a natural history of four meals," but it is about much more than food. Pollan begins the book closely examining the omnipresence of corn in the modern American diet. And then he goes beyond the territory traversed by other books like Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, and as an investigative food journalist, Pollan does not only offer critiques of the unsustainable megaliths of industrial corn farming and the PETA-angering Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), but offers alternatives to these destructive systems.