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The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
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The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals

Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: New York : Penguin, 2007, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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 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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Pollan
ISBN: 9780143038580 0143038583
OCLC Number: 148696764
Description: 450 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Michael Pollan.

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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 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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