“The Omnivore’s Dilemma” author Michael Pollan will present a lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, in Beasley coliseum. He also will participate in a question-and-answer session with students only that day, 3-4 p.m. in the CUB auditorium.
“The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals” is the Common Reading selection at WSU Pullman for 2009-10.
Pollan will lecture on the “Sun Food Agenda.” About 10 questions will be taken as part of the presentation. Submit questions in advance to cindyw@wsu.edu.
In “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us – industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves – from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating.
The sun food agenda has to do with Pollan’s advocacy of weaning the food industry from fossil-fuel-based support (fertilizers, pesticides, gasoline/diesel vehicles) and returning to a (technologically enhanced) reliance on the sun’s energy.
