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 I trust Michael Pollan for the truth in his facts. Its obvious to see that he has strong opinions about what he writes about, but because they are so obvious, its easy to separate the two. Although the challenges the ideas of vegetarians to be naive, he does also challenge the way that omnivores in the United States eat their meat. Pollan's writing style and point of view does not turn the reader into the villain, but the culture of the consumer as a whole and the industries. Some things that Pollan talks about makes me want to scribble angrily in the margins contradicting him, but he usually does it to himself a paragraph or two later. For this reason, I trust him. Although he does has an opinion, he shows both sides, and the facts are easy to see. 

I think an important last point to talk about in response to our reading is that although animals dying and being eaten is a natural thing, the way it is done the vast majority of the time is not natural; in the way that they are no longer raised, but farmed.