Responce to Pollan 1

In Omnivore’s Dilemma I agree with Pollan in the sense that America has a lack for a stable food culture. The reason being is that in our country today there are too many messages going around. Ones such as “don’t eat those foods or you might become fat,” or “I think you should eat whatever you want in order to enjoy what you can,” or “you should eat these good foods but not those foods,” and even “be anorexic and just throw up whatever you eat.” It is due to messages like these that America has such a problem developing a steady food culture. It is because instead of just embracing what the world makes and what people develop everyone just puts a “message label,” on a certain kind of food that says something like “I have too many carbs so don’t eat me.” When people do this it cause us to be too conscious of what other people are saying instead of eating what we want to eat. I think this doesn’t just destroy our food culture but it destroys people’s lives. This is so because by food opinions being thrown in from scientists, journalists, TV, and various other places. Those sources should only be giving a person advice on what to do and not how to live their lives. But people take these sources to be like their “food gurus,” and whatever they say the American people listen to. Therefore I believe that Pollan is right that America has a huge lack for a food culture. And those food opinions should be taken as advice and not something that needs to be done to conform to the “American food way,” which basically is just doing whatever the media tells us to do.