chapter 16 and 17

In Chapter 16 of Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma, he discusses different tastes, appetite cravings, and cooking styles and all about the communities preference of food and how special it is to the area. Michael has many different opinions on food, obviously. And he believes things like immigrants attempt to create a culture here is a failure. I completely dissagree with this. I believe that what immigrants bring to the table can be complete assumulations of their home town. The idea that meals can bring back culture is one major thing that immigrants do these days.
In Chapter 17 Pollan talks about the ethics that people have of eating animals. From the book I get the view that I have always had, yet from things like Food Inc. that we watched in class I believe that it gives me a view that eating animals is wrong and seeing what is done to them makes it hard to eat meat, even when I am a natural meat eater. I wish that I could say that the meat companies should change their ways and they should not hurt the animals, but how could that possibly happen with all the demands, mine included. This industry is so sad, and it is sad how things are handled, but nothing really can be done to help it improve.