In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan goes into the connections between people and their food. Pollan investigates the environmental ethical and health effects of each food system. His book urges readers to be more aware and with their food choices understanding where their food comes from and the impacts of it can have.
8-Pollan suggests that many things go into to the rise of vegetarians and animal rights groups. One reason is the visibility of industrial farming practices,not seeing what the animals go through has desensitized people from having compassion towards them he animals.Also health concerns related to meat consumption have pushed more people to a eating habits not consisting meats.
9-When Pollan said “The schizoid” he meant that people do not have sympathy for animals causing people to eat them. Pollan states “The disappearance of animals from our lives has opened a space in which there’s no reality check on the sentiment or the brutality”.
10-Pollan highlights Bergers idea that losing daily contact with animals has reduced our compassion for them. Berger notes that seeing animals eyes reminded humans of their similarities and differences, allowing them to respect and consume them: “That eye contact… brought the vivid daily reminder that animals were both crucially like and unlike us”
