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I feel that Pollan is reliable. I am convinced that he definitely put great thought into what he criticized and researched. The way that he manages to tie in stories into the facts he presents are quite interesting to me. There is a possibility that I find him more reliable and credible because he is using scientific research and he actually names and visits the places he accuses of not being entirely organic. I feel that the arguments he makes are extremely well-researched. In some ways, I find Pollan to be quite sarcastic and playful with the subject. Nonetheless, I feel inclined to trust him. He not only criticizes meat-lovers, but also the people that choose to keep meat and animal by-products out of their meals. 

After having read Chapter 17, I for one, was disgusted with the concrete description of the way a cow is stunned and slaughtered. In class, I had said that I took pleasure in not knowing where my meat comes from. I would rather just leave that in the back of my mind when I have a big, juicy sirloin steak on my plate. I have heard all of that facts before, but I just tend to put it all aside. I was disturbed by those images as I was reading, until I just grew speechless. It made me truly think that I may just be living in denial or that there is something in me that tells me that it is okay to eat meat, possibly my culture.