The Omnivore's Dilemma
by amy
Today on Fresh Air, Michael Pollan, author of 2001's The Botany of Desire, discussed our national eating disorder, the seductive pastoral experience that draws us down the aisles of Whole Foods, and the high cost of our dependence on corn--the SUV of plants responsible for 1/5 of our fossil fuel consumption, the ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup that contributes to our national epidemic of obesity, and the cause of a fish-killing Bermuda triangle in the Gulf of Mexico the size of New Jersey. All this and more is available in Pollan's "remarkably clearheaded book" (Publisher's Weekly), The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. You'll never look at a chicken nugget the same way again.
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