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 When I first started reading The Omnivore's Dilemma I realized that I really had no idea how the food industry worked. While I was reading through the chapters I felt as though Pollan was revealing these secrets that the food industry had been trying to keep hidden all along. Yet, the food industry may not want the general public to know things that would prevent them from buying more of a product, but maybe it is not so much that the food industry is hiding things from the consumer, but more that the consumer simply doesn't ask enough questions. I want to trust Pollan because I feel as though when he wrote the book he was taking the time to ask the questions that people usually don't think to ask. Not only that, I could not imagine  that Pollan would go through the trouble of gathering information about the food we eat and writing about it if he didn't feel passionately about the subject and didn't feel that people should know what they are putting into their systems. Although it may not always be the case, I feel as though most people who are extremely passionate about a subject will go to great lengths to know as much as they can about what they feel strongly about. 

I have to say though, when Pollan began to talk about his personal experiences with eating meat and started bringing his own opinion onto the pages I felt as though the book lost some of its reliability. Yet, if Pollan didn't do that then I think the book might have been less interesting as well. I would like to think that when writing this book Pollan tried not to be biased, and I will have to read on to see if that is truly the case.