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by Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
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read in December 2016
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"Everything eventually morphs into the way the world is. And yet the pastoral values and imagery embodied in that word survive in the minds of many people, as the marketers of organic food well understand: Just look at a container of organic milk, with its happy cows and verdant pastures. Thus is a venerable ideal hollowed out, reduced to a sentimental conceit printed on the side of a milk carton: Supermarket Pastoral" Jan 21, 2017 08:58PM

 
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