Food Chain Citation
HGFC “The disgust I felt was so strong
I wondered how I could ever eat
this animal now. How could I
serve it to my friends? Some of
the disgust I felt made sense.
After all, part of the stench was
from the waste in the pig’s
intestines. ” -pg 340
LSFC “At Polyface, the Salatins
try to work with the
natural instincts of their
animals, not against them.
” -pg 234
IOFC “The sheds look more like
a military barracks than a
barn. They are long, low
buildings with giant fans at
either end. To go inside I
had to put on a white
hooded suit. ” -pg187
Perspective
Pollan uses the word disgust to
represent the emotion he felt
after engaging in the
uncomfortably intimate process
of killing and slaughtering an
animal for consumption. This
shows that he find the hunting
and gathering process a bit
unfeasible for people who are
uncomfortable with watching
animals die in person and most
people who are not regular
hunters.
Pollan uses the phrase “natural
instinct” to compare the
Salatins’ approach to farming. I
can conclude the fact that he
believes the LFSC to be
harmonious with nature and
therefore more genuinely
“natural” and “organic” than the
IOFC and IFC
Pollan describes the chicken
sheds with the noun “barracks.”
He is obviously confused as to
why the animal house looked
different from what he expected,
especially on the “organic” farm
he went to. I can infer that he
thinks the IOFC is partially
misleading with its claims about
food production.
Food Chain Citation Perspective

IFC “Cattle are now raised in Michael Pollan uses the word
densely packed animal densely, an adverb, to show the
cruelty the animals have to
cities like Poky’s. These
endure when they are in the IFC.
places are called CAFOs— It is evident that Pollan opposes
Concentrated Animal this practice by using “densely”
Feeding Operations. packed to describe living
Farmers gave up raising conditions of animals
cattle because, as strange
as it might seem, it costs a
farmer more to grow feed
corn than it costs a CAFO
to buy it.” -pg 75