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 As I was reading the part of Prodigal Summer when Deanna and Eddie were preparing this freshly-killed turkey, I saw this connection between something that Pollan mentioned in the Omnivore's Dilemma. Deanna talked about the food chain, not only in the context of the food they were about to eat and the way that it was obtained, but also the idea of the predator and the prey. The killing of the turkey reminded me of Pollan making his dinner from what he had personally hunted and gathered. The fact that Deanna was a sort of animal activist yet also didn't mind that Eddie had killed the turkey was what struck me the most. The reason why Eddie caught the turkey in the first place was to give Deanna a meal, something she hadn't had in a while. She was used to eating her "birdfood" and her eating the turkey represented her way back into the norm. Pollan argued in making the dinner from scratch, helps one to reconnect to not only the origins of a food, but also of a human being.