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Title: A Waste of Paper
Review: This book is a long journey through many accusations, and little real substance. Michael Pollan devotes the first half of the book to criticizing the corporate agricultural machines of Cargill, ADM, and Monsanto, and the politics (subsidies) behind it all, but then weakly offers the solution as independent smaller farms utilizing a grass-based system versus the giant corporate machines utilizing a corn-based system. The fact that a McDonalds meal is actually 60% carbon molecules derived from corn doesn't tell me much. Is a carbon molecule derived from corn any less healthy for me than a carbon molecule derived from wheat, or from grass? A balanced diet in either case is probably what is essential. All conjecture, no medical facts or statistics. He then spends the remaining half of the book on his noble quest of killing a wild boar, and picking mushrooms, for his all natural "gatherers meal."
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