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Cover of: The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Michael Pollan
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Cover of: The omnivore's dilemma by Michael Pollan

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

Published 2006 by Penguin Press in New York .
Written in English.

First Sentence

What should we have for dinner?

Table of Contents

Introduction Our National Eating Disorder 1
I. Industrial Corn 13
One The Plant: Corn's Conquest 15
Two The Farm 32
Three The Elevator 57
Four The Feedlot: Making Meat 65
Five The Processing Plant: Making Complex Foods 85
Six The Consumer: A Republic of Fat 100
Seven The Meal: Fast Food 109
II. Pastoral Grass 121
Eight All Flesh is Grass 123
Nine Big Organic 134
Ten Grass: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pasture 185
Eleven The Animals: Practicing Complexity 208
Twelve Slaughter: In a Glass Abattoir 226
Thirteen The Market: "Greetings from the Non-Barcode People" 239
Fourteen The Meal: Grass-Fed 262
III. Personal The Forest 275
Fifteen The Forager 277
Sixteen The Omnivore's Dilemma 287
Seventeen The Ethics of Eating Animals 304
Eighteen Hunting: The Meat 334
Nineteen Gathering: The Fungi 364
Twenty The Perfect Meal 391
Acknowledgments 413
Sources 417
Index 437

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
394.1/2
Library of Congress
GT2850 .P65 2006

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
450p.
Number of pages
450

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3431041M
Internet Archive
omnivoresdilemma00poll_0
ISBN 10
1594200823
LC Control Number
2005056557
Library Thing
504173
Goodreads
3109

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