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Subject(s)

• Food habits [Browse]
• Food preferences [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Summary note

"Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, as the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species. Packed with profound surprises, The Omnivore's Dilemma is changing the way Americans thing about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

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Sold by: Penguin Publishing.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-435) and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Our national eating disorder
• I. Industrial: corn. The plant: corn's conquest
• The farm
• The grain elevator
• The feedlot: making meat
• The processing plant : making complex foods
• The consumer: a republic of fat
• The meal: fast food
• II. Pastoral: grass. All flesh is grass
• Big organic
• Grass: 13 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
• III. 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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