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My daughter is reading Omnivore's Dilemma by Pollan and I was sleepless one night this week being as I am still wrestling with OPM over the Health Insurance open season, so I thought the book would be so boring I would zonk right out. Wrong. Interesting writing style about industrialization of food production. The author is a journalist and does not have a detailed knowledge of science nor facts but he is a clever writer and has the broad picture correct. Interesting point is the industrialization of even organic food production such as free range chickens.
One concept he mentions is how we vote with our money when we go to the grocery store, or don't go.
An example of his lack of knowledge is when he claims corn (maize) is totally dependent on humans for reproduction being as the kernels are attached to the cob and enclosed in a protective husk. He obviously has never seen a deer, raccoon, muskrat, squirrel or crow go after an ear of corn. Nonetheless, it is a readable book about food production.
I suspect you have already read it or better books but thought I would mention it being as it has gotten almost impossible to buy actual cornish game hens anymore at the grocery store. What you get nowadays is the size of what we used to call a "fryer".
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