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     I'm not quite sure why I trust Pollan. It might be because I feel kind of obligated to believe things written in books. But he sounds trustworthy, like he's only doing all this research to inform his own decisions and that he is just letting us know as something extra.
    When I make a decision about anything while reading this book, like whether organic is good or if I should stop eating meat, his argument changes and so does my mind. I feel like he is giving us both sides of the story because I can't make up my own mind about these issues.
    My parents get chicken from a halal slaughterhouse that I've only been to once because it disgusted me so much. I do like supermarkets better because the meat there doesn't really look like it ever came from an animal. Pollan says that is the problem because we're so far removed from where our meat comes from, we can't make informed choices about what to eat. And it's true, I eat without thinking about where my food came from and what it was before it became my food. I don't think I could look an animal in the eye and watch it die, then still be able to eat it.