This type is caused by large amounts of starches and sugars in our diet. And if cheap corn keeps flowing the cheap food will always be the unhealthiest.
Pollan then goes to another farm owned by a man named Salatin. An immediate difference between Salatin's farm and Naylor's farm was that Salatin's was covered in grass instead of corn. Salatin tells Pollan that he is a grass farmer meaning his products come and eat grass. Salatin then calls soil, "earth's stomach," because it digests the dead and nourishes the living. Compared to Salatin, Naylor's farm has a global market & is more industrial. Salatin take many variable into account before letting his cows graze such as the sigmoid curve and if it is at the blaze of growth. The way Salatin does things is so complex because it is not something that was human made. One of the many complex things that Salatin does is he restores his land by intensive farming. Birds always follow the herbivores as the sanitation crew, but he waits 4 days because chickens eschew fresh manure. A time after this he slaughters the chickens as a political act. In addition, he says that the current food-safety regulations have a problem, they are one size fits all. The USDA doesn't set thresholds for food-borne pathogens because it lacks the authority. And sooner or later killing the chickens becomes no longer morally troubling. People claim that his food is elitist, yet he sells to everybody and says it is the cheapest food you can buy.
Pollan says that the hunter gatherer food chain is no longer able to support us because there is not enough game left. Pollan says he wanted to hunt to take a more direct conscious responsibility for killing the animals he ate. Otherwise he felt he shouldn't really eat them. In addition, he says the blessing of the omnivore is we can eat various things within nature. The curse is that when it comes to figuring out what is safe to eat.
