This year's Common Book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan is an exploration of the different methods of food production found in the United States today. The author takes us behind the scenes of today's industrial monoculture and shows us how the crops and animals raised by today's farmers and agricultural corporations ends up as food on our dinner tables. Especially enlightening is his description of the consequences of the agricultural subsidies promoting the growing of corn. This corn is found in the majority of the food products we consume each day. It turns out that Americans, not Mexicans, are the true "people of the corn."
Copies of the Common Book are available for 3 day loan at Atherton and Meader Libraries. Go to the Circulation Desk to check it out.
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