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In chapter eight of Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan makes the argument that everything is grass, and that almost everything that we eat is tied back to it in some way, shape or form.  He basis the ground for the argument in pointing out that all the animals that we consume for food either eats grass, or has been affected by grass.  One example that he gives of this is chicken eggs.  When he visits a farm to see how it runs and operates he quickly notes that because of the grass that they were consuming, the chickens on the farm produced a greater number of eggs.  He doesn’t claim that we are directly tied to grass through food, instead he notes that grass is a common link between all of our major sources of food.

It’s a little odd to think that grass is the main component that links all in the food change, but it’s true in many ways.  Even now, people who have shifted away from eating meat have often turned to drinking wheat grass juice.  It may sound like a dumb comparison, but those same people who drink it, may not have ever linked to the idea that they could be consuming the same grass that the cow sitting on their friends lunch plate as a hamburger once dined on.  You hear all of these references to the circle of life, but because we hear it so often, I think that people kind of blow off the idea and don’t even think about it.

Who thought that the stupid Disney song from the Lion King would hold true to readings assigned for a rhetoric class in college?