Yay. Grass.

In Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, we encounter many interesting arguments and discoveries pertaining to our food and how we eat that we may have never thought of before. The first one hundred pages of the book focused mainly on corn and how it plays a role in our lives, although we may not notice it. Ultimately, corn is built into many of the things we eat - and even the things we eat once ate corn before becoming our meal. All in all, we are a corn society, people who eat it far more than we expect, such as in fast foods.

The second one hundred pages of the book have to deal with the farm. Pollan had been visiting Polyface Farm and had noticed all of the animals that resided there but was surprised to hear his friend Joel say that he is a grass farmer. In here we can learn that grass is the foundation of our food chain and is extremely important although it may not seem like it at first glance. The grass feeds the cattle, chickens, and pigs that feed us. This should not be entirely surprising to us since it should be obvious that animals have to eat to, but it was a subtle eye opener to me. Usually, I don't really think about the process that goes into the food that I eat and I do not tend to worry about the animal beforehand, but this chapter helps us to see that the process is a bit longer and thorough than we might have thought.

There is so much work that goes into our food just for us to take a simple bite and to be satisfied. However, are we really ever satisfied? Pollan mentions in the text that we are never entirely satisfied by what we eat, but rather we are only full for the moment. We basically live our entire lives depending on food and it is a continuous, never-ending cycle in which we stuff our faces. I had once heard someone say that life is eating and I think I understand what she meant now. All our lives we eat and do so in order to live, but maybe we are just living to eat. We tend to do so without thinking so it's obviously a vicious cycle.