Can You Really Save the Planet at the Dinner Table ? by Tyler Cowen

     The text talks about three American for supply chains: the industrial, which are factory farming and supermarkets; the organic, which includes family farms and other small-scale producers; and what he calls "the hunter-gatherer" food supply chain, which we experience when scavenging for ourselves. He then goes on talking about how, thousand of years ago, the cows and chicken we eat today used to graze in the wild. They weren't locked up in tiny boxes and fed only corn and soybeans and other foods grown with harsh fertilizer and toxic pesticides. Even the organic food nowadays is not really "organic." The chicken are still locked up in tiny boxes that probably are only a few inches bigger. The text also talks about how everything we eat, technically, adds more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Pollen also tries to make us more aware of how we should increase our conservation for the environment and nature.The transportation costs and risks for bringing in fruits and vegetables all affect the environment. In the end he summarizes his argument by talking about how we should stop growing our own food and pick up a book and learn about food and every detail that goes along with it.