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 I trust that what Pollan writes is accurate and I respect his opinions and ideas about food.  I agree with a lot of what he says, but not all of it, and I don’t think he expects or wants the reader to agree.  I like thinking about the different issues he raises and trying to think about food from a different perspective than I have before.  Some of what I have read has disturbed me, but I have found it beneficial and I think it is important to have that kind of information available.  A lot of the information I have read before from various sources such at PETA and the Humane Society because my aunt is into animal rights and sends me articles every so often. At the end of this I will need to formulate my own opinion about food in our society, but right now am still in the process of mulling things over. 

I was a vegetarian for nine years because in first grade my friends and I thought it would be a fun thing to try together.  I don’t remember which one of us came up with this crazy idea, but it wasn’t until I was a little older that I started to learn about the inhumane way animals are treated in the food industry.  I have switched back to eating meat, but lately I have reconsidered becoming a vegetarian once again.  I think that it is natural and beneficial to eat meat, but I do not think it is right for the animals to be kept in small cages, fed unnatural food, and treated like machines.  The processes that Pollan describes make me uncomfortable.  I would, however, be fine with eating meat from an animal that was raised and slaughtered on a farm where he/she was treated ethically.

As a side note, after reading this section I really want to have a pet pig.