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"Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker
One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award
Author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules

What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

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One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award
Author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules

What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.
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What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a...
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          The Omnivore's DilemmaIntroduction: Our National Eating Disorder

          I. Industrial: Corn

          One. The Plant: Corn's Conquest
          Two. The Farm
          Three. The Elevator
          Four. The Feedlot: Making Meat
          Five. The Processing Plant: Making Complex Foods
          Six. The Consumer: A Republic of Fat
          Seven. The Meal: Fast Food

          II. Pastoral: Grass

          Eight. All Flesh Is Grass
          Nine. Big Organic
          Ten. Grass: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pasture
          Eleven. The Animals: Practicing Complexity
          Twelve. Slaughter: In a Glass Abattoir
          Thirteen. The Market: "Greetings from the Non-Barcode People"
          Fourteen. The Meal: Grass Fed

          III. Personal: The Forest

          Fifteen. The Forager
          Sixteen. The Omnivore's Dilemma
          Seventeen. The Ethics of Eating Animals
          Eighteen. Hunting: The Meat
          Nineteen. Gathering: The Fungi
          Twenty. The Perfect Meal

          Acknowledgments
          Sources
          Index

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