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Re: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

JohnyMontana — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:00:47 -0000

Read it some while ago, very interesting book. Help you spend some spear time usefull

Re: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

bigsanford — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:04:33 -0000

great book! the corn proliferation bit definitely dropped my jaw (which i then closed on some grass-fed beef)...

Re: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

John — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:00:36 -0000

hey nicholas -- you should read the first section -- corn is okay, of course, we just seem to be ingesting an awful lot of the low grade variety...

Re: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

nprevs — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:49:20 -0000

From a health standpoint, I generally feel better about eat corn products (like corn tortillas) rather than white flour products (flour tortillas), because the corn stuff is often a whole food, whereas white flour is essentially sugar, having been stripped of the bran.

Obv corn syrup is a separate nightmare.

Re: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

Mike Beltzner — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:52:57 -0000

I'd be keen to borrow that one, if you're looking for a place to lend it :)

I'm also quite eager to see King Corn when it hits the local theatres.

Re: The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

Christopher Blizzard — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:40:41 -0000

I loved that book. One little geeky think I loved in it was the fact that you can tell based on the amount of a certain type of carbon in your body what percentage of you is "made of corn." Mind blowing, really. With all the cheeseburgers and chips I've eaten in my life I'm sure I'm more than half corn at this point.

Corn has done a great job of domesticating us.