Chapter 9 reading

This blog is on chapter 9 of The Omnivore’s Dilemma. This chapter was very long but it had a few interesting points in it. The author, Michael Pollan, talks about food from Whole Foods and follows them back to the source of where they were grown and gives us, the readers, an insight of organics. He mainly visits California because California grows a majority of America’s produce and organic has a large part in it. Some of those meats that you’re eating, well there is a good chance that the animal was raised just to be slaughtered which brings into questioning, what kind of chemicals did people inject into these animals? Growth hormones? Other harmful things? Pollan mentions how the organic method was founded on the three impressive alternative methods, the alternative methods of production, systems of distributions, and methods of consumption. So the real question asked is organic farming better? Yes and no. Its better because we are ingesting less pesticides so therefore it is better for our health. But no because the crops soil is tilled quite often to get rid of weeds and this destroys the soil.