Michael Pollan's Key Idea on the Industrial Food Chain in The Omnivore's Dilemma
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In 2024, the film *Food, Inc. 2* further highlighted the issues Michael Pollan's book originally exposed nearly two decades prior, revealing a food system that has become even more consolidated and opaque. In *The Omnivore's Dilemma*, Pollan reveals that the industrial food chain is fundamentally unnatural, unsustainable, and largely based on a single crop: corn.
