Reading 2/16

I found chapter eight of The Omnivore's Dilemma interesting starting with the title: Flesh is Grass. In this chapter, Pollan talks about his visit to the Polyface Farm, where chickens, cattle, and turkeys, among other animals as well as vegetables, are raised. Despite this, the owner of the ranch sees himself as a grass farmer instead of an animal farmer. This means that he tries to use his animals in everyway possible to boost the production of his pastures as much as possible. I found it especially interesting when he compares Salatin's farm to Naylor's farm, the ,man from earlier in the book. Although they may seem very similar, these two farms could not be more different. The differences range from the type of energy used to where the products are sold. This was interesting to me because I originally would have thought that these men were extremely similar, though obviously not exactly alike. He then goes back to talking about "organic" and what it really means. Pollan states that Salatin's farm is not organic in any sense of the word. It is however more sustainable than most farms out there. This too was interesting because I believe that many people think that organic and sustainable go hand in hand, when in truth, a farm can be just one or the other.