In these last three chapters of the book omnivore's dilemma, Michael Pollan addresses the issue in which human beings obtain their food and attempts to answer the question, as humans, what should we really be eating. In chapter 18, Pollan writes about his quest to hunt and successfully kill a wild pig. He also talks about the process in which after killing the pig, they obtain the meat from it. Then in chapter 19, since he just focused on the hunting part of eating in chapter 18, Pollan directs his focus to the gathering aspect of eating by writing of his experiences of foraging for mushrooms that were edible. He described the process as more of hunting than gathering because there was the potential that the mushroom's would be poisonous. This was somewhat enlightening to me because I have been hunting and have shot game and used the game for meat. However, I have never foraged or gathered my food such as mushrooms because the process seems rather boring and unnecessary.

In chapter 20 of the omnivore's dilemma, Pollan sets out to prepare and consume what he deems the "perfect meal". He first sets a list of rules in which the "perfect meal" must follow and follows them and goes through some pretty extreme measures in order to do so. After reading this I have a newfound longing to recreate and even eat this "perfect meal" on a regular basis. However, for most americans, like myself, this goal is unobtainable due to our fast paced lifestyles. This fast paced lifestyles has contributed to the capitalist styled agricultural system we have in America today that Pollan has written about throughout the book