The token salads might still be in keeping with the tenets of agro-business but they do not contain meat products. Still, Pollan hints at how those salads support the same industries that sustain large-scale animal slaughtering.
In Chapter Seven, Pollan focuses on the ethics and the feasibility of the fast food business model as well as its effects on dietary health and well being. Without droning didactically, Pollan points out the problems with fast food: such as high levels of fat and sodium. The nutritional content of fast food is directly and causally related to heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Pollan needs not delve into great detail about that which most Americans should already be aware. What Pollan does point out are the hidden ingredients in McDonald's menu items, especially in the chicken McNuggets. By the time Pollan wraps up the chapter, readers will wonder why he allowed his son to eat the McNuggets in the first place. The McNuggets contain "several completely synthetic ingredients, quasi-edible substances that ultimately come not from a corn or soybean field but from a petroleum refinery or chemical plant," (Pollan 113). McDonald's food isn't' cooked in the sense that a home-cooked meal is; a McDonald's menu item is contrived in a corporate office and manufactured in a laboratory.
Pollan's ability to refrain from shrillness is one of the greatest strengths of The Omnivore's Dilemma. By eating McDonald's himself, Pollan does not speak from a pulpit and readers will not feel judged. They will think harder and more critically about what they eat and where their food came from, which is the primary objective of Pollan's writing The Omnivore's Dilemma. Pollan's self-experimentation serves two distinct but related rhetorical functions. First, the method lends credibility to The Omnivore's Dilemma just as a case study would. Pollan is not speaking theoretically but rather, from a perspective of qualitative research. Second, the method of self-experimentation connects Pollan with the reader on an emotional level. His pathos is enhanced further by Pollan's command of the written word and his use of poetic devices that do not include discrediting hyperbole. Not once does Pollan use alarmism; he simply allows the facts to speak for themselves.
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