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

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 fro...

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Main Author: Pollan, Michael
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Food habits.
Food preferences.
Feeding Behavior.
Food Preferences.
Biological Evolution
Physical Description:450 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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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