Format:
1 Online-Ressource (460 pages)
Edition:
Tenth anniversary edition
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.
Content:
Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century may determine our survival as a species
Note:
"With a new afterword by the author."
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781101147177
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1101147172
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780143038580
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0143038583
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781594200823
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780143038580
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Pollan, Michael, 1955 - The omnivore's dilemma New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2016 ISBN 9780143038580
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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Medicine
Keywords:
USA
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Ernährungsgewohnheit
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Nahrungskette
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Lebensmittelindustrie
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Electronic books
Author information:
Pollan, Michael 1955-
