Book Club: Gristle
Monday, April 19th, 2010I just finished reading Gristle: From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat), edited by Moby and Miyun Park!
Having already pored through Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals and Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, I still can’t decide if I’m totally disappointed by this book, or psyched about it. It read like a punchy, younger, more informal version of Omnivore’s, with a tinge of the same personalized dialogues of Eating, but was just so damn short. All of the information in it I’d already read, in much more detail in the other two books, but it had lots of amazing pull quotes, charts, and graphs, that made it a really quick read and a bit more fun. If you haven’t read up on the meat industry at all, I’d totally recommend it as an easy starter read into the subject! But man… If you’ve read anything on the subject already, you’ll be vastly disappointed by the lack of any new information. I was really hoping Moby and Miyun would be able to bring something new to the table with this little book. Not so. Not so at all.
