The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals [Tenth anniversary edition] 9780143038580

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating

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The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals [Tenth anniversary edition]
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Table of contents :
Content: Our national eating disorder --
I. 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 --
II. Pastoral: grass. All flesh is grass --
Big organic --
Grass: 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 --
III. Personal: the forest. The forager --
The omnivore's dilemma --
The ethics of eating animals --
Hunting: the meat --
Gathering: the fungi --
The perfect meal --
Afterword. The omnivore's dilemma now.

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