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

Large Print 2006

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 treacherou...

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Food habits

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ISBN:

9780786289523
078628952X

Edition:

Large print edition

Description:

711 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
large print

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

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
Pastoral: grass. All flesh is grass
Big organic
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
Personal: the forest. The forager
The omnivore's dilemma
The ethics of eating animals
Hunting: the meat
Gathering: the fungi
The perfect meal

LCCN:

2006019943

Control Number:

616233

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