Eat your view

Read Omnivore's Dilemma over the break. Not to mention that my break is still going on until the 10th of January. It is one fantastic read. In the top 100 all time non-fiction list. Michael Pollan tries to answer the question of what we should eat.

He starts with corn and it's omnipotence in the industrialized food system. He mentions CAFOs and its big role in making meat cheap and available to common man. He doesn't spare the government of its policies to encourage growth of subsidized corn and make fast food prevalent.
If you want to find out the food chain and its dependencies right from farmers growing corn OR grass (in case of organic foods), animals eating it, droppings turning into manure, animals being killed for meat and humans being at the far end of the food chain finally consuming the meat, this is your book.

'Eat your view', is a line in this book that caught my attention. After some thought I realized how true it is. It signifies how your decisions and choices - be it buying from a fast food joint or from whole foods or from a local farmers market or hunting for your meat - determines what part of the food chain (industrial, organic, pure organic) you are encouraging and contributing. In the end you are eating your view.