Humans have too much choice about what to eat, says Michael Pollan in his thought-provoking The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Americans, he claims, particularly suffer from a “national eating disorder” – obsessed with diets while becoming increasingly obese – due to the relatively new country’s lack of historical food culture, its wealth and the abundance of supply. After revealing to us where most of our food comes from, and which are the good and bad guys (corn comes in for particular criticism), he presents four meal options: a McDonald’s; an organic meal purchased from Whole Foods; a meal sourced from an organic farm; and a meal made with food foraged for or killed by the author. The short story is that the farm one is the best – read this fascinating book for the detailed explanation why.
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Humans have too much choice about what to eat, says Michael Pollan in his thought-provoking The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Americans, he claims, particularly suffer from a “national eating disorder” – obsessed with diets while becoming increasingly obese – due to the relatively new country’s lack of historical food culture, its wealth and the abundance of supply. After revealing to us where most of our food comes from, and which are the good and bad guys (corn comes in for particular criticism), he presents four meal options: a McDonald’s; an organic meal purchased from Whole Foods; a meal sourced from an organic farm; and a meal made with food foraged for or killed by the author. The short story is that the farm one is the best – read this fascinating book for the detailed explanation why.