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The omnivore's dilemma : the search for a perfect meal in a fast-food world / Michael Pollan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury, 2011.Description: 450 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781408812181 (pbk.) :
  • 9781408812181 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Search for a perfect meal in a fast-food world
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 641.3 POL
LOC classification:
  • GT2850 .P65 2011
Contents:
Introduction: our national eating disorder -- 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 -- 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 -- Personal: the forest. The forager -- The omnivore\'s dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting: the meat -- Gathering: the fungi -- The perfect meal.
Summary: Providing an exploration of the American food industry, this book brings a fresh perspective to the question 'what shall we have for dinner?'. It follows each food chain, tracing the provenance of everything consumed, and is useful for those who think about where their food comes from.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 641.3 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 216240

Originally published: New York: Penguin; London: Bloomsbury, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: our national eating disorder -- 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 -- 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 -- Personal: the forest. The forager -- The omnivore\'s dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting: the meat -- Gathering: the fungi -- The perfect meal.

Providing an exploration of the American food industry, this book brings a fresh perspective to the question 'what shall we have for dinner?'. It follows each food chain, tracing the provenance of everything consumed, and is useful for those who think about where their food comes from.

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