Blog 2 chapter nine

Chapter nine of the Omnivore's Dilemma mainly talks about organic food in today's society. The Chapter starts out with Pollen explaining his experience while shopping for whole foods and how the labeling and price of an item can really influence whether or not the customer will buy it. "In the industrial food economy, virtually the only information that travels along the food chain linking producer and consumer is price" (Pollen, 136). I would definitely have to agree with this statement because whenever I'm shopping, price is the major factor that influences whether or not I will buy an item. Pollen than goes on to talk about the Industrial side of the organic Farming Industry. "Being every organic TV dinner or carton of industrial organic milk stands a certain quantity of land that will no longer be doused with chemicals, an undeniable gain for the environment and public health" (Pollen, 158). From this, it makes it sound that these farmers are doing the world's environment a favor, but in reality they are the same men who applying toxic fumes to the environment through the use of their mega farms. Even though these farmers are helping out by going "organic" they are still bringing the environment down by applying toxins to their non organic farms. In the end, the organic farming industry is the healthy way to go for this world even though it is a hard decision for farmers to make when non organic farming is a much easier way to develop a profitable crop.