Michael Pollan's purpose in writing The Omnivore's Dilemma was born when he realized that society is incredibly unhealthy due to abundance of food. The two contradictory logics introduced by Pollan are the logic of nature and the logic of industry; these two logics are translated through the different ways of raising livestock. Nature's logic is to raise livestock in a pastoral environment where the animals interact with each other and avoid the use of artificial chemicals; while the logic of the industry is content to raise livestock in an abnormal way. Breeding livestock through the use of corn made it possible to produce meat in large quantities and in a short time, as described in the chapter “Feedlot: Meat Production”, in a word, or, in the industry's preferred term, "efficiency." Cows raised on grass simply take longer to reach slaughter weight than cows raised on a richer diet, and for half a century now the industry has been dedicated to shortening the scope allocated to a meat animal on land… which takes an ox from 80 to 1,100 pounds. in fourteen months we have enormous quantities of corn, protein and fat supplements, and an arsenal of new drugs. (71) Although feeding corn to cattle speeds up the process until they reach slaughter time, evidence shows that feeding corn to cattle genetically programmed to eat grass produces unhealthy beef. which then plays a role in healthy people, minimizing the longevity of Americans. Furthermore, the logic of nature relies on complex mutual relationships in which each animal contributes to the sustainability of its environment in a cyclical manner, as discussed in the chapter “All Flesh is Grass”: Birds follow and clean up after herbivores. And so in turn middle of paper......the additional use of arsenal drugs due to the fact that these cattle are incapable of processing corn. Raising cattle obviously conflicts with the logic of nature, because these cattle are equipped with a very complex system that has evolved to transform plant nutrients from photosynthesis to the transfer of those nutrients to the meat that eat Americans. Budding livestock act in a mutual relationship as each organism has its own natural way of contributing to the food chain, essentially improving the health of its own complex cyclical system but also the health of consumers. Nevertheless, the organic method takes far too much time and money for farmers to now use a cheap product that is used in almost everything. Americans are in fact “walking corn”. Works Cited Pollan, Michael. The omnivore's dilemma. New York: the Penguin group. 2006