The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Oh wow! I was searching for a book on ecological land use and the price of agriculture on our land and for the environment and boy did I find it!

A book I certainly would recommend everyone to read, though, I do give permission to skip over some of the passages. Pollan deftly deeps into the details of the Industrial, Organic and Pastoral food chains, with “fun” facts about each system that almost had me underlining a passage each page.
One example; corn has become such a cheap commodity, we are putting it in everything, most importantly in animal feed. But did you know that cows are not made to eat corn, and that their rumen (the organ which turns the cow's food into protein/gains) will become slimy, causing bloat and the suffocation of the cow, as well as turning it acidic, which makes the E. Coli bacteria (that are present in 80% of cows), resistant to acidic environments so that our digestive system is no longer acidic enough to get rid of these bacteria?

Pollan interweaves his personal story in between these facts, going to visit feed lots, pastoral farmers and going on a hunting&gathering mission. At the beginning of the book I enjoyed these in between passages, to take a break from information overload. However the entire last chapter is on the ethical dilemma of killing & eating animals and the experience of eating food and was a bit to dreamy/spiritual for my liking. So, I really encourage everyone to at least read the first part, I really enjoyed the Pastoral part, but only read the last part if you're more focused on the spiritual/ethical dilemma.