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

Summary: "What shall we have for dinner? Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported? Wild fish or farmed? Low-carb or low-cal? We can eat what nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. This work traces the origin of what is consumed and the implications of it for us and our planet." --product description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780143038580 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 9781594200823 (hc)
Physical Description: print
450 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Penguin, 2007, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Pbk. ed. published in 2007.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Our national eating disorder -- 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 -- 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 -- The forager -- The omnivore's dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting : the meat -- Gathering : the fungi -- The perfect meal.