Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, is a must read for anyone who eats. It presents an in-depth, first-hand experience look at the food industry from the stand-point of four different meals–a fast-food meal eaten flinging down the freeway; a commercial, industrial, organic meal assembled from ingredients shipped from many diverse locations; a pastoral, completely local, “beyond-organic” meal from ingredients worked for over the course of a week spent on a small farm; and finally, a meal hunted and foraged for from the wild by the author’s own hands with the help of experienced friends.

Author Pollan takes us on his journey in an informative way which includes and involves the reader. If you do not already know where, why and how certain foods in the United States are raised and handled before you read this book, by the time you’re finished reading you will. And hopefully reading the book will open your eyes along the way to the many things in American agriculture and food-science which drastically need to be changed.

If you at all value the food you place in your mouth you would do well to read this book and think about how you can change things for the better.