Book: “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan

Americans eat pretty much nothing but corn. One of those things I suppose an intelligent person could have reasonably guessed, but I’m not all that bright. Or, rather, I knew Americans ate a lot of synthetic junk made of corn, but didn’t realize just how much.

Also includes one of the best counters to the common animal rights-means-vegetarianism arguments I’ve read since Daniel Dennett’s Kinds of Minds. What makes it so good is that it reads as though Pollan is just sitting there thinking it through and including the ramifications of what it means, which not many animal rights activists or proponents do, at least in a real world way.

I had the rare pleasure of reading for hours a day and reading the whole book in a couple of days while at the in-laws’ for New Year’s, which I love doing.

One Fat Penguin recommends The Omnivore’s Dilemma.

~ by One Fat Penguin on January 3, 2008.