Reading #2, 2-1-10

What I connected to most from this week’s reading from chapter 9 of The Omnivore’s Dilemma was Pollan’s very interesting ideas about the organic food market and how not all of it is ever completely honest. Pollan spoke about how labels on foods can trick you into buying one thing and believing another, and I know this is true from my own life. When trying to make the most conscious choice nutritionally, whether it be organic or not, you must be very careful when reading labels because they were not written with the intentions that we as the consumer will be able to understand what they say. The fact that the people who are selling us what we eat, are not telling the real truth about it infuriates me. Another topic that resonated in my mind as I read was about how organic food is becoming “produced”. I think it is so sad that something such as “organic” food, which people look for in order to nourish their bodies, is being turned into more of a company interested in the monetary value versus the health status of its consumers. What I mean from all of this is, is that you cannot produce food that is “organic”; we must leave that solely up to nature.