The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals / Michael Pollan.

Author
Pollan, Michael [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
Description
450 pages ; 25 cm

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      What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from a national eating disorder. As the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous landscape, what's at stake becomes not only our own and our children's health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth. Pollan follows each of the food chains--industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves--from the source to the final meal, always emphasizing our coevolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. The surprising answers Pollan offers have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us. --From publisher description.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-435) and index.
      Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
      Read by Scott Brick.
      Contents
      • Introduction : Our national eating disorder --pt. 1. Industrial : corn
      • The plant : corn's conquest
      • The farm
      • The elevator
      • The feedlot : making meat
      • The processing plant : making complex foods
      • The consumer : a republic of fat
      • The meal : fast food
      • pt. 2. Pastoral : grass
      • All flesh is grass
      • Big organic
      • Grass : thirteen ways of looking at a pasture
      • The animals : practicing complexity
      • Slaughter : in a glass abattoir
      • The market : "greetings from the non-barcode people"
      • The meal : grass-fed
      • pt. 3. Personal : the forest
      • The forager
      • The omnivore's dilemma
      • The ethics of eating animals
      • Hunting : the meat
      • Gathering : the fungi
      • The perfect meal.
      ISBN
      • 1594200823
      • 9781594200823
      • 9780739474563
      • 0739474561
      • 014305841X
      • 9780143058410
      • 9780143038580 ((trade))
      • 0143038583
      LCCN
      2005056557
      OCLC
      62290639
      International Article Number
      • 9781594200823
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