Can You Really Save the Planet at the Dinner Table

This article stood out to me the most because I was curious on how an economist would view Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma. Taking a micro and macro economic class in the past I realized two things 1. I loath economics and 2. Economist take every factor into consideration when handling a problem. They take factors that no citizen would even think about because it might have a chance at affecting the solution. Because of this state of mind, Cowen goes on to state how unattainable it is to make the cost of foods transparent. He also comments on the issue Pollan points out with how transporting foods puts a heavy burden on petroleum. From an economic point of view, we are technically conserving energy because global trade puts food production where it is the cheapest which in return "saves energy by economizing on cost of labor, irrigation, and fertilization, relative to the alternatives." This article does shine a light to an interesting different point of view.