The omnivore's dilemma
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals Michael Pollan,
Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
ISBN: 1594200823
Summary:
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 from a national eating disorder. As the
cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast food outlet
confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous landscape, what's at
stake becomes not only our own and our children's health, but the
health of the environment that sustains life on earth. Pollan follows
each of the food chains--industrial food, organic or alternative
food, and food we forage ourselves--from the source to the final
meal, always emphasizing our coevolutionary relationship with the
handful of plant and animal species we depend on. The surprising
answers Pollan offers have profound political, economic,
psychological, and even moral implications for all of us.--From
publisher description.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-435) and index.
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.
Book Details:
Language: eng
Physical Description: 450 p. ; 25 cm.
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