I just finished Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma (this is why I’m not asleep), and I think it’s easily one of the best books I’ve read this year. I only hope that I can put some of what he writes about into practice in my own life and eating habits:

But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we’re eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost. We could then then talk about some other things at dinner. For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we’re eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.