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The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals / Michael Pollan.
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Pollan, Michael
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
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450 pages ; 25 cm
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GT2850 .P65 2006
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Food habits
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Food preferences
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Evolution
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Creative nonfiction
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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.
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ISBN
1594200823
9781594200823
9780739474563
0739474561
014305841X
9780143058410
9780143038580 ((trade))
0143038583
LCCN
2005056557
OCLC
62290639
International Article Number
9781594200823
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