The Omnivore’s Dilemma has been written and published in 2006. The key dilemma of the book is “what to eat for a dinner”. Author has made an emphasis that human beings are the omnivores- those species, who eat both plants and animals as the primary source of food. In the Latin, “omni” means all, everything and “vorare” implies devouring. (Coleman, 2004) Generally author makes and emphasis that due to the fact that humans are Omnivores and are not selective in foods, people usually face with a food dilemma.
In order to get more information and understand the human choices in food, author has classified the food due to the factor of its origin - organic food, pastoral food, industrial food and also- the food we forage ourselves.
While considering the industrial type of food, author pays special attention to the food-production system, which is the source of the lion share of the current American meals. Author considers the corn as the key basis of industrial food: first of all, it is consumed directly; also, it may be applied as the fed tolivestock and also, the chemicals are processed form the corn - for example, glucose.
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While discussing the pastoral food, Pollan outlines the key principles of the organic farming and also, the practical implementation of these principles. Author makes an emphasis on the fact that the organic food is popular in the nowadays America and that, in turn, has leaded to the adaptation of the industrial agriculture methods by the producers of the organic food to its manufacturing. In such way, the principle of anti-industrial roots of organic movements has been lost. As the author prepared the meal from the whole foods market ingredients, the pastoral food chain at the table has been represented.
In the last section of the literature work - personal food, Pollan represents the cooking of the food, which uses only the components, which have been cultivated, hunted or gathered by him. Author has been assisted by the localfoodies - he has been taught to gather the mushrooms in the forest, to search for abalone and to huntferal pigs. Also such dishes as a salad of greens, which were gathered in own garden, sourdoughbread ofwild yeast, dessert from the cherries, which have been picked in the neighborhood, have been cooked by the author.
The main idea of this work of literature was the author’s conclusion about the incomparability and unsuitability of the fast food meal and the hunter-gather meal. Author says that these meals are "equally unreal and equally unsustainable” (Pollan, 2006). Author has come to a conclusion that in the case of providing people with additional information about the source of consumed food - its origin, place of origin, means of delivery and its true cost, people would come to a conclusion that we "eat by the grace of nature, not industry.” (Pollan, 2006)