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I feel that Pollan is being very critical and looking deeply into each topic fishing for ways to contridict and argue against it. I guess in a certain way, that we would have to agree to the claims he makes. Yet, I feel that he's not particularly giving us an answer or a hypothetical process that we should specifically follow to satisfy him. Thus, I can't be completely convinced, but I do see a point he is making - he takes a clear, critical angle in this book and continues to play that role throughout the book.

This leads me to conclude and assume that he himself he dramatizing all possible means of producing organic foods (and other subjects in other chapters).
If in fact, we worked to make all foods possible organic, the price would probably shoot up, causing a decrease in the demand. Economically, I feel that how Whole Foods is working is an economically-smart way to run an efficient, healthy supermarket. People do want to eat healthy, but not so much that we'd have to pour our entire saving account into it.

I question his own habits of eating and whether he would objectively say that he himself is also being naiive, or if because he has reviewed all aspects of the omnivore's dilemma, that he's better-off than the vegans and vegetarians who 'failure to understand how the natural world works'.

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