[PhebaAndThePilgrim]

Hello from Pheba, From the farm:
Wow, I am reading a book that is so good I can't put it down. I spent all day Friday planting my garden, working outside, etc.
I was soaking in the tub when my hubby came home from work. I did not hear him come in.
The prior weekend my grandkids had visited and there tub toys were still in a pile behind the head of the tub.
I was so into this book I did not know that my husband had crawled down next to the bathtub and was lining the Star Wars dolls up on a row on the rim of the tub.
Finally, I looked up to see Darth Vader coming right at me in the tub. I screamed and called my husband all kinds of colorful names.
It took Darth Vader to pull my attention away from "Omnivore's Dilemna".
I have long since felt that our American diet was somehow flawed.
When I was diagnosed with a corn allergy, my eyes were opened to just how much processed food is made from corn.
I live in mid Missouri where corn is all around. I just never put the pieces together.
Author Michael Pollan does put the pieces together. And, he does so in a concise, enjoyable, direct manner. His prose is wonderful. His logic is undeniable. His facts are clear and correct.
There is a major connection between cheap oil, corn and the profits to be made from the connection.
Michael Pollan traces the natural history of four meals from the field to the table. He starts with a fast food meal, then does a locally grown meal, a meal from one of the new chain store organic grocery stores, and finally a traditional hunter gatherer meal, which me obtains himself, including the slaughter of an animal.
I highly reccomend this book for anybody interested in energy issues and peak oil.
All things are connected, and after you read this book, you will never look at food the same way again.

From the back cover:
"What should you eat? Michael Pollan addresses that fundamental question with great wit and intelligence, looking at the social ethical, and environmental impact of four different meals. Eating well, he finds, can be a pleasurable way to chanbge the world."
Eric Schlosser

Pheba

[bart]

Good interview with Pollan about the book at UC Berkley news service

Re-posted at Energy Bulletin

Describes the connection between our corn-based diet and oil.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Phebagirl', 'F')inally, I looked up to see Darth Vader coming right at me in the tub. I screamed and called my husband all kinds of colorful names.

It took Darth Vader to pull my attention away from "Omnivore's Dilemna".
I have long since felt that our American diet was somehow flawed.
When I was diagnosed with a corn allergy, my eyes were opened to just how much processed food is made from corn.