Summary Of Omnivore's Dilemma

“ You are what you eat, it's often said, and if this is true, then what we mostly are is corn” says Michael Pollan in his book “The Omnivore's Dilemma”. After reading the “Omnivore's Dilemma” I started questioning myself a lot about what we eat. The first shocking information was about how the animals are raised in order to become food for us. Cows, ruminants, are fed with corn and excrements instead of with grass?! This is the doing of the Corporations, messing up with the animals in order to get more profit. But the animals are living creatures before they are food! I know that we, humans, are carnivores, but don't we have other choices? Of course we do and Michael Pollan writes about them. We could buy meat from
What about the chickens? Some kids grow up in the big cities without having any contact with the rural areas, with the plantations of fruits and vegetables and with animals. Small farmers are giving up on their farms everyday, because the big corporations are crushing them with their prices. Less than one percent of the Americans are farmers; one in every four farmers is able to generate gross revenue higher than 50,000 dollars a year. Who wants to become a farmer and produce organic, sustainable food and raise animals decently nowadays? The percentage of principle farm operators 65 years or older has increased almost ten percent since 1969. In 1935, the number of farms in the USA was 6.8 million and the population 127 million. Nowadays, there are over 313 million people living in the USA and 2.2 million farms (numbers from an USDA research). We can clearly see that the new generation is not thinking about improving the quality of our meals; it's not profitable. So, let's support the small farmers concerned with the land and the animals; like Joel Salatin in Michael Pollan's book. At the same time, we should support our health and pay respect to nature and the