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A Conversation with Michael Pollan
Ekar Farm Hosts Michael Pollan, Author of the Omnivore’s Dilemma at the Paramount in Denver
![Jacopo da Ponte [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://hazon.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/774px-The_Animals_Entering_Noahs_Ark_1570s_Jacopo_Bassano-100x100.jpg "Reading Noah in 2011 – Where Do Our Values Really Come From?")
Reading Noah in 2011 – Where Do Our Values Really Come From?
Reflection on some of what I’ve been thinking about, as we look back on Hazon’s first dozen years and look forward to the future.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
By Michael Pollan – Penguin Press, 2006 Reviewed by Natan Margalit From Tikkun Magazine, August 2006 Ben Zoma used to say, “What labors Adam had to carry out before he obtained bread to eat! He ploughed, he sowed, he reaped, he bound the sheaves, he threshed and winnowed and selected the grains, he ground and sifted the flour, he kneaded and baked and then at last he ate. Whereas I get up in the morning and find all these things done for me.” –Babylonian Talmud, Brakhot 58b Claude Levi-Strauss once said that food is not only good to eat, but also good to think. Our meals are statements that help us to understand ourselves and our world. Of course, the Bible makes this connection between food and thought with Adam and Eve’s fateful meal from the Tree of Knowledge. In today’s world of complex, industrial food chains, however, that connection is broken. Food seems to come from the supermarket, manufactured and packaged. Ignorance, not knowledge, characterizes modern eating. Even more disturbing is the fact that food categories that we might imagine are more transparent, more ethical, such as organic food – and kosher food — are increasingly involved in this […]
