Abstract
Michael Pollan's “The omnivore's dilemma” has been very much covered by the media and announced as “one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post” in 2006. Throughout his book, Pollan clearly shows us that what we eat is mostly processed, industrialized food which, traced backwards, originates in corn, which relation with fossil fuel is very intricate.
Also, he shows us that the exponential rise of organic food industry is not that much of a good news, because the chicken or the cow that is said to be very well treated is in fact over-exploited and has a very short lifespan. Finally, the author gets into preparing his own meal and, after much labor and time spending – and not much taste, he realizes that it is practically impossible to live the life of a hunter-gatherer nowadays.
In this paper I will try to show that this book is not really complete in its attempt to find a healthy way of eating that suits average people.
