The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Pollan writes about the ecology of the food humans eat and why--what it is, in fact, that we are eating. Discussing industrial farming, organic food, and what it is like to hunt and gather food, this is a surprisingly honest and self-aware account of the evolution of the modern diet.

ISBN	1594200823	DEWEY	394.12
ISBN13	9781594200823 (What's this?)	Pages	450
Publisher	Penguin Press	Volumes	1
Imprint	PENGUIN PR	Weight (grammes)	681
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	254
Publication date	01 May 2006	Width (mm)	153
Library of Congress	2005056557

	Introduction : our national eating disorder	1
1	The plant : corn's conquest	15
2	The farm	32
3	The elevator	57
4	The feedlot : making meat	65
5	The processing plant : making complex foods	85
6	The consumer : a republic of fat	100
7	The meal : fast food	109
8	All flesh is grass	123
9	Big organic	134
10	Grass : thirteen ways of looking at a pasture	185
11	The animals : practicing complexity	208
12	Slaughter : in a glass abattoir	226
13	The market : "greetings from the non-barcode people"	239
14	The meal : grass-fed	262
15	The forager	277
16	The omnivore's dilemma	287
17	The ethics of eating animals	304
18	Hunting : the meat	334
19	Gathering : the fungi	364
20	The perfect meal	391

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