The omnivore's dilemma a natural history of four meals
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- ISBN: 9781101147177 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1101147172 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource. - Publisher: New York : Penguin, 2007, c2006.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-435) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Our national eating disorder -- I. 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 -- II. 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 -- III. Personal: the forest. The forager -- The omnivore's dilemma -- The ethics of eating animals -- Hunting: the meat -- Gathering: the fungi -- The perfect meal. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Food habits Food preferences Evolution |
Genre: | Electronic books. |