The final three chapters from this book talk us through Pollan’s experience of hunting pig, picking mushrooms, and gathering a complete meal for himself. This way of life is called hunting and gathering, and it’s the way humans survived before industrialization. Although this way of obtaining a meal was obviously a lot tougher for Pollan then stopping at McDonald’s, he talks of the experience as satisfying and self rewarding. The opportunity to gather a complete meal for himself, and an awfully healthy one at that, was an experience that not many people get these days.
Personally I would never want to live in a hunting and gathering society, or ever have to find a complete meal for myself in the wilderness. Industrialization today has made it possible for us to get a meal in five minutes without even stepping out of our car. And although there are some negatives to this, I believe the positives outweigh the negatives tenfold. I often don’t make myself a meal at home because I am too lazy to cook it, but Pollan’s gathering experience has taught me to greatly appreciate how little work I do to get a quality meal in the world today.
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ReplyDeleteThe hunting experience was well detailed by Pollan, I could simply visualize what he was saying. I did like how you said that we can get a meal in 5 mins without getting out of the car... that made me laugh. It's very interesting to read that Pollan had so much information to tell us what they are doing to the food and how it ends up in a supermarket or fast food restaurants. Pollan has changed my way of eating and hopefully I continue to eat healthier.
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