The omnivore's dilemma
Subtitle: the search for a perfect meal in a fast-food world
By: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780747586838
Subjects: Food; Food habits; Food preferences; Food industry and trade; Aliments; Habitudes alimentaires; Préférences alimentaires; Foods; Feeding habits; Matkultur; Livsmedelskonsumtion
Description: Michael Pollan provides the truth behind why we consume what we consume in the 21st century.
Notes: Originally published: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: our national eating disorder; title: Industrial: corn. The plant: corn's conquest; title: The farm; title: The elevator; title: The feedlot: making meat; title: The processing plant: making complex foods; title: The consumer: a republic of fat; title: The meal: fast food; title: Pastoral: grass. All flesh is grass; title: Big organic; title: Grass: thirteen ways of looking at a pasture; title: The animals: practicing complexity; title: Slaughter: in a glass abattoir; title: The market: "greetings from the non-barcode people"; title: The meal: grass-fed; title: Personal: the forest. The forager; title: The omnivore's dilemma; title: The ethics of eating animals; title: Hunting: the meat; title: Gathering: the fungi; title: The perfect meal.