The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals /
By: Pollan, Michael [author.].
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2016Edition: New ed.Description: 450 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143038580; 0143038583; 1594200823; 9781594200823.Subject(s): Food habits | Diet | Farm produce | Food supply | Sustainable agriculture | EvolutionDDC classification: 394.12Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 394.12 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082596 | ||
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-435) and index.
Introduction. Our national eating disorder -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. Personal : the forest -- The forager -- The omnivore's dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting : the meat -- Gathering : the fungi -- The perfect meal.