The Omnivore's Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals

Throughout his work, which includes classic books like The Omnivore's Dilemma, about why we eat the way we do, and How to Change Your Mind, about the science and use of psychedelic drugs, Pollan has waded into questions about the inner workings of the mind.

I read Omnivore's Dilemma 20 years ago.

thanks in large part to Michael Poland's Omnivore's Dilemma, which came out in 2007 and basically introduced everybody to the concept that like we're eating all wrong, essentially.

thanks in large part to Michael Poland's Omnivore's Dilemma, which came out in 2007 and basically introduced everybody to the concept that like we're eating all wrong, essentially.

You know, Michael Pollan has a great quote on this, the author of Omnivore's Dilemma.

It's sort of Michael Pollan's old eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

He says a lot of our food problems are due to what's called the omnivore's dilemma, which is also the title of one of his books.

The phrase the omnivore's dilemma is an anthropological term for an omnivore that can eat so many different things, some of which is not good for you, some of which will kill you.

And deciding between what is good and what is bad is a big part of why we have these giant brains we have.

it's not only psychedelics you know he wrote the omnivores dilemma, this is your mind on plants, how to change your mind and he's written beautiful accounts of how we see the world of what we take.

I bought a cow and followed him through the food system. It became a chapter in The Omnivore's Dilemma on the meat industry.

I'm reading Omnivore's Dilemma right now; it's a good book, Michael Pollan, it's just about what goes into the food that we eat and how it's all processed.

His rule is if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't put it in your body.

Because of this book, Kendall likes that doesn't like to eat out all the time, so we try to cook more at home.

And I read this book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. You know this book, Michael Pollan? Yeah. And he has a whole chapter about like, I think he was the first person who brought up, he or you was the first person who brought up like, hey, you got to start thinking about this animal's life if you're going to eat it.

our entire diet has been colonized by this one plant.

It's a book I recommend everybody read if you haven't yet.

He said tripping on this is like being strapped to the nose of a rocket that flies into the sun and evaporates.

our entire diet has been colonized by this one plant.

It's a book I recommend everybody read if you haven't yet.

I believe it was Pollan who can turn a heck of a phrase.

He said tripping on this is like being strapped to the nose of a rocket that flies into the sun and evaporates.

especially if you like the three of us are on the carnivorous side of Michael Pollan's omnivore's dilemma, you know that meat prices have gone kind of nuts.

And we're not even gonna find scientific papers. We're gonna find popular books by Michael Pollan and Marian Nestle and Eric Schlosser and Jonathan Safran Foer and have them, it's gonna be a discussion-based class.