Don't read that book

In what seems like a case of the crazies, Michael Pollan's book Omnivore's Dilemma has been censored. Crazy, ridiculous? Are we in the year 2010?

Huck Finn, The Grapes of Wrath and the Omnivore's Dilemma? Yes, Michael Pollan's popular rebuke of agri-business seems to have joined those other great works on the list of censored books. Officials at Washington State University have removed Pollan's work for what some are saying are political reasons.


According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the book was dropped from the common reading list for incoming freshman. The university is citing budget constraints as the reason, but those seems dubious at best. After all, Washington State, a well known agriculture school, has already purchased 4,000 copies of the book.



"What we were told is that when the committee picked The Omnivore's Dilemma, because of the politics of the agriculture industry, we would not be having a common reading, and that President Floyd decided that this was not a battle he wanted to wage," said one person who had knowledge of the program and asked not to be named because of fear of job loss.