Big Organic Blog Response

While reading the chapter Big Organic in Michael Pollan's Ominvore's dilemma, I had quite a few thoughts. Admittedly, I am the type of person that doesn't usually care much about where their food comes from as long as it's good. As I read this chapter, however, Pollan actually began to convince me through his positive words about Whole Foods, that maybe it is worth it to pay a bit extra to have food from a cow that was grown on a farm where he lived a happy life. For the first time probably ever, I actually leaned towards eating exclusively from health food stores...and then I read on.

As the chapter continues the truth emerges. While packaging of foods from stores like Whole Foods to indeed display literature which soothes the consumer's conscience about how their food got on the shelf, it is not displayed in all honesty. As Pollan delved deeper into the marketing of the "organic" food, he found that often the truth was stretched about where the food came from, and the food at the supermarkets that have been injected with hormones and raised specifically to be food, is very close to the "all natural" and "free range" food promoted at health food stores. Ultimately this chapter let me know that I would be just as well off eating food from my local non organic grocery store as I would be from eating only food from Whole Foods. Thanks Pollan.