In these Chapters Pollan explores the most natural way of acquiring food to eat. He goes out to hunt for a pig in the woods and then picks mushrooms out in the Forrest and acquires each part of the meal with people who know whats safe to eat and what is not. His doing this represents the way man survived before industrialization. Throughout his experiences in collecting the food he feels the satisfying feelings of hunting and gathering and the euphoric feeling of hunting that pollan describes as a marijuana like high. The main point of this being the opposite extreme of the fast food meal. After enjoying the hard earned meal he compares it to the one that he and his family ate for "14 bucks for the three of us that was consumed in ten minutes at sixty-five miles per hour"(Pollan 410). This statement shows the extreme industrialization that our country has grown through and compares it to the roots of human survival which was hunting and gathering.
Looking back at the book it shows you what industrialization has done to our food and how it is bad for the animals and the farms there on. However at the end of all of this it is this that has allowed America to adequately feed the large majority of our citizens and at the same time, the convenience of being able to eat that meal in ten minutes at 60 miles per hour.
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I like how at the end of your post you summed it all up by stating the positive outcomes of the industrialization of our country. Although some people see such industrialization as semi-negative, without it our country could not survive the way it does today.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that the food industry is keeping us alive but that doesn't mean that there is no other way to operate. Hopefully the American people can come together and tell the food corporations that we want change.
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