http://consciouslifestyle.org/taxonomy/term/144/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-US http://consciouslifestyle.org/content/conscious-lifestyle-recommends-omnivores-dilemma <p>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. <span class='read-more'><a href="http://consciouslifestyle.org/content/conscious-lifestyle-recommends-omnivores-dilemma">&nbsp;read&nbsp;more&nbsp;&raquo;</a></span></p> http://consciouslifestyle.org/content/conscious-lifestyle-recommends-omnivores-dilemma#comments Sustainability book review Cal factory farm In Defense of Food industrial agriculture Michael Pollan Omnivore&#039;s Dilemma School of Journalism slow food sustainable agriculture UC Berkeley Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:19:06 -0400 mattswriting 375 at http://consciouslifestyle.org