The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals / Michael Pollan.

Author: Pollan, Michael.

Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2007, c2006.

ISBN: 9780143038580 (pbk.)
0143038583 (pbk.)

Description: 450 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject(s): Food habits.
Food preferences.

Contents: 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.