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The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
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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 som...
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, at the dawn of the twenty-first century may determine our survival as a species.--From publisher description.
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- Creator
- Michael Pollan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Penguin, 2007
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 450 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780143038580, 0143038583
- OCLC
- ocn148696764
- Includes bibliographical references pages [417]-435) and index.
- Our national eating disorder -- I. 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 -- II. 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 -- III. Personal: the forest. The forager -- The omnivore's dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting: the meat -- Gathering: the fungi -- The perfect meal
Subjects
- Food habits.
- Food preferences.
- Evolution.
- Feeding Behavior.
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- Food Preferences.
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