I’m not a huge Michael Pollan fan. I mean, I feel like he stacks up the cards for being a vegetarian and then says, But I don’t wanna be, and then inspires a lot of people to continue eating meat. And not even the “good” meat he writes about. I know people who say, Well, I will just eat grass-fed organic beef and then I will be okay. But time goes by, and they stop paying for that expensive meat, and they’re back to the industrial beef you buy in most grocery stores, or at Costco.
But one thing I like about Pollan is that he does tell it like it is and he is totally savvy about the insanity and long-term health effects of eating from our agro-industrial system. I cannot understand for the life of me why anyone who reads his books, or an article like Power Steer, in which Pollan details the life of a steer that he purchased as it moves through the very normal life cycle of an American beef cow, why anyone would ever even consider eating beef afterward.
Pollan ends the article with a pithy quote: “We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that’s only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.”
What does your food eat?
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