Write a 300-word initial response to the following prompt regarding your reading in The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Before writing your initial response in this week’s forum, read “Blessed Be My Freshly Slaughtered Dinner,” written by Kate Murphy and published in The New York Times on September 5, 2015, and “A New Breed of Hunters Focuses on the Cooking,” written by Kim Severson and published in The New York Times on February 5, 2019.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/sunday-review/blessed-be-my-freshly-slaughtered-dinner.html (Links to an external site.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/dining/game-hunting-food.html (Links to an external site.)

Consider how these articles inform your understanding of what you have read in The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan and how what you have read in our text better prepares you to think about and understand what is written in the New York Times articles.

Write a 300-word initial response to the following prompt regarding your reading in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, “Blessed Be My Freshly Slaughtered Dinner,” and “A New Breed of Hunters Focuses on the Cooking” and post it by Wednesday.  Make specific reference to the text and the articles, your own experience, and other readings to support your response.  This question is a starting point for our discussion this week.  Once you have made your initial response, you may take the discussion in other directions.

Discuss the “perfect meal” that Michael Pollan prepares for and ultimately serves in the concluding chapters of The Omnivore’s Dilemma.  Use “Blessed Be My Freshly Slaughtered Dinner” and “A New Breed of Hunters Focuses on the Cooking” to help you contextualize Pollan’s experiences. Determine what Pollan wants you to understand about the process and the meal.  Compose a 1 – 2 sentence lesson that you believe Pollan might want you to take away from his experience with the “perfect meal”.  Explain your reasoning and support your ideas with specific references to the book and the articles.