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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: 394.12
Contents:
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.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 394.12 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0082596
Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU St Angela's McKeown Library Main Lending Collection 394.12 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T33808
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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.

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