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Campus Read
Welcome to 2008-2009 UW Waukesha Campus Read Program.
Each year UW-Waukesha selects one book that is used in many different classes and incorporated into extra-curricular programming.
This year’s Campus Read is Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. The Omnivore’s Dilemma is an exploration of the food that we eat and the impact that our food choices have on our health, culture, economics, politics, and general well-being. Pollan starts the book with the perennial question asked by all omnivores: “What should we have for dinner?” and spends the rest of the book answering the question. In answering the question, Pollan examines the different avenues food takes to find its way onto our plates—the industrial, the organic/alternative and the hunting/foraging paths—raising questions along the way a costs and benefits of each of these chains of food.
Copies of this book are available for purchase at the UW Waukesha campus bookstore. Additional copies are available for seven-day check out at the UW Waukesha library reserve.
About Michael Pollan and The Omnivore’s Dilemma
From Michael Pollan’s personal website
For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. His previous book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post.
For more information about Michael Pollan, check out his website http://www.michaelpollan.com/
Reviews of The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Schedule of Events—Fall 2008
Food Film Festival and Discussion
We will be showing and discussing two films this semester related to themes addressed in The Omnivore’s Dilemma.
- Film 1: Wednesday, October 15, 6 pm in Northview 133
- Film 2: Thursday, November 13, 6 pm in Northview 133
Book Club Discussion
Come discuss Omnivore’s Dilemma with faculty, staff, students, and community members. All are welcome and lunch will be provided.
Each discussion will meet from noon-1 pm in the private dining room (the small room attached to the cafeteria).
We will be meeting three times throughout the semester to discuss different sections of the book.
- Wednesday, September 24: Introduction (Or National Eating Disorder) and Section 1 (Industrial:Corn)
- Thursday, October 23: Section 2 (Pastoral/Grass)
- Tuesday, November 18: Section 3 (Personal/Forest)
Public Lectures
- September 18: 50 Minutes Lecture – “Ethanol: An Environmental Hangover.” Kevin Lee, UW-Waukesha department of biological sciences. Commons 101, noon.
- October 15: Visions & Expressions – “Economics of Food: How Local and Sustainable Works.” George Zens, café owner and founder and editor of The Sustainable Times newspaper. Commons 101, noon.
- October 21: 50 Minutes Lecture – “Down on the Factory Farm: The Ethics of Eating Meat.” Timothy Dunn, UW-Waukesha philosophy department. Commons 101, noon.
- November 6: Visions & Expressions – “Eating with your Conscience.” Kristin Krokowski, UW-Extension Commercial Horticultural Educator. Commons 101, noon.
Campus Immersion Excursion
Friday, June 26, is UW Waukesha’s annual Immersion Excursion. This is a campus-wide event where many groups of students go out into the community with faculty and staff to learn more about local community groups and engage in a service learning project. This year there will be a couple of different Immersion Excursions directly related to the Campus Read. Please contact Margaret Hankenson if you are interested in learning more or participating in an Excursion.
Eating Local at Fall Fest
Fall Fest is Thursday, September 11. Stop by the Campus Read table in the quad, enter your name for a chance to win a free copy of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and sample some tasty food treats created from locally grown food.
Explore the Subject
Want to dig in more deeply on topics and themes discussed by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore’s Dilemma? Check out the list below. Also, see the homepage of the UW Waukesha Library for a Library Resource Guide of The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Industrial Agriculture
- Nestle, Marion. 2003 Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
- Fussell, Betty. 2004 The Story of Corn
- Pawlick, Thomas. 2006 The End of Food
- Warman, Arturo. 2007 Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
- Kimbrell, Andrew. 2002 Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture
- Critser, Greg. 2004 Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
- Schlosser, Eric 2005 Fast Food Nation
- Sinclair, Upton 1906 The Jungle
Sustainable Agriculture
- Salatin, Joel 2001 Family Friendly Farming: A Multi-Generational Home-Based Business Testament
- Marx, Leo 2000 The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
- Berry, Wendell 1982 The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural
- Diamond, Jared 2006 Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive.
- Hawken, Paul 2000 Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
- Logsdon, Gene 2004 All Flesh is Grass: Pleasures & Promises of Pasture Farming
Ethics of Eating Meat
- Singer, Peter 2001 Animal Liberation
- Regan, Tom 2004 The Case for Animal Rights
- Regan, Tom 1989 Animal Rights and Human Obligation
Slow Foods Movement
- Halweil, Brian 2004 Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
- Petrini, Carlo 2007 Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean and Fair.
- Petrini, Carlo 2006 Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Eating and Living
- Waters, Alice 2007 The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
Websites relate to themes raised in Omnivore’s Dilemma
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