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post #21 of 33
6/14/08 at 6:15pm
I liked it. I want to read In Defense of Food
post #22 of 33
6/14/08 at 6:21pm
I just ordered this book, and I also have In Defense of Food and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle on my wishlist. I've heard good things about all three, so I'm eager to start reading them. I was happy to read a previous post about the one that mentions farming...I want to learn more.
post #23 of 33
6/15/08 at 11:58pm
I'm almost finished with it now. I LOVE it! In Defense of Food is on hold waiting for me at the library.
post #24 of 33
6/17/08 at 11:49pm
I am afraid too because I know it will mean new lifestyle changes that will be HARD! But, I will read it because I know It's something I need to do.

I say this because all my friends are reading it at the moment and they say the organic milk I've raised my kids on is not a whole lot better than buying the cheap hormone junk you see at gas stations. Eeekkkk.
post #25 of 33
6/19/08 at 6:14pm
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I loved it. I recommend it to anyone interested in food and/or sustainability.
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post #26 of 33
6/20/08 at 1:57am
I got my copy today, and started reading! Will post when I'm further into it...
post #27 of 33
6/20/08 at 9:44am
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great book!
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It's a lovely book. Great information, and really well written too. It makes things so obvious, that you won't be able to understand why everyone isn't rethinking their food system!
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Also, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver is another great read on the same subject.
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I thought it was a very good book.
post #28 of 33
6/22/08 at 2:11pm
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My dh read it, loved it, and it completely changed his views of food and he has become just as conscious about our food as I am, it's great!
I'm so jealous!

I want my DH to read that type of book, but he won't. So, I actually did read him a few passages of Omnivore's Dilemma, and tried discussing it with him.

He basically said, yeah, the author makes good points, but DH is not changing his eating habits. He loves junk food. High fructose corn syrup is his good friend. :
post #29 of 33
6/22/08 at 3:01pm
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Originally Posted by simple living mama View Post
I am afraid too because I know it will mean new lifestyle changes that will be HARD! But, I will read it because I know It's something I need to do.

I say this because all my friends are reading it at the moment and they say the organic milk I've raised my kids on is not a whole lot better than buying the cheap hormone junk you see at gas stations. Eeekkkk.
I hear you on this. After opening up this book, I've had to admit that I've been practicing willful ignorance with regard to the industrially processed food we're feeding our bodies and our children and what impact such a food system has on our health, our economy, our environment, our farmers, our animals...it's just mind-boggling and so sad...because it feels like there is no way to fight the powers that be, so to speak.

I'm only halfway through the book and I'm reading it slowly so as to give it the full attention I believe it deserves...and it's hard and compelling all at the same time. I made my kids read aloud the page where he describes how Chicken McNuggets are made. They're rolling their eyes at me when I tell them no soda and try to talk about high-fructose corn syrup...they'd like to remain willfully ignorant, too.
post #30 of 33
6/22/08 at 4:28pm
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I hear you on this. After opening up this book, I've had to admit that I've been practicing willful ignorance with regard to the industrially processed food we're feeding our bodies and our children and what impact such a food system has on our health, our economy, our environment, our farmers, our animals...it's just mind-boggling and so sad...because it feels like there is no way to fight the powers that be, so to speak.

I'm only halfway through the book and I'm reading it slowly so as to give it the full attention I believe it deserves...and it's hard and compelling all at the same time. I made my kids read aloud the page where he describes how Chicken McNuggets are made. They're rolling their eyes at me when I tell them no soda and try to talk about high-fructose corn syrup...they'd like to remain willfully ignorant, too.
All of this makes me wonder if I should read it too. We eat pretty well but do buy meat from the store. We try to buy every once and a while from the farm down the road but we could never afford to buy it everyday. I need a lot of protein.
post #31 of 33
6/22/08 at 5:21pm
I just read Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, and devoured Animal, Vegetable, Miracle as I adore Barbara Kingsolver.

All very thought provoking, and really solidified my commitment to eating the way we do (homegrown or local-organic from farmers we know)...
post #32 of 33
6/23/08 at 2:14am
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All of this makes me wonder if I should read it too. We eat pretty well but do buy meat from the store. We try to buy every once and a while from the farm down the road but we could never afford to buy it everyday. I need a lot of protein.
When I talk about my own "willful ignorance," one of the things I'm specifically referring to is meat. The way industrial meat--chicken and beef and pork--is grown and processed..starting with the forced-feeding of of corn to animals that are biologically not designed to eat corn to the animal-feeding systems of feed lots that are covered in shin-deep manure and pens full of cows covered in the same excrement...

Pollan even talks about how the "supermarket prose" that we find on products in places like Whole Foods market that tell us the "pastoral" history of our food at the point of purchase is almost as misleading...How a package of beef can say that the beef comes from a cow that was "free-range" and grazed on "lush green grasses," but when you research the history of that animal, you find that the cow spent it's calf-hood in the pasture with it's mom until it was weaned, then it spent 6 months on a dusty, mass-feeding farm eating corn and covered in crap, and then two weeks on green-grass grazing before it was slaughtered...

The problem for me is that I cannot afford to buy local, free-range meat. Buying local organic is expensive enough, I do the best I can to feed my family as healthily as possible, but we just don't have the money to cut ourselves off from industrial processed foods...In the city I live in we don't have a lot of options...it's just a problem all the way around...

Sort of makes me wish I hadn't started reading the book...but it's stuff we should all know, ya know?
post #33 of 33
7/1/08 at 10:39pm
The book is scaring me -- but in a good way. I need to be a more conscious consumer.
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