Product Description
A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us--whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed--he develops a portrait of the American way of eating.

The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet.

	Introduction : our national eating disorder	1
1	The plant : corn's conquest	15
2	The farm	32
3	The elevator	57
4	The feedlot : making meat	65
5	The processing plant : making complex foods	85
6	The consumer : a republic of fat	100
7	The meal : fast food	109
8	All flesh is grass	123
9	Big organic	134
10	Grass : thirteen ways of looking at a pasture	185
11	The animals : practicing complexity	208
12	Slaughter : in a glass abattoir	226
13	The market : "greetings from the non-barcode people"	239
14	The meal : grass-fed	262
15	The forager	277
16	The omnivore's dilemma	287
17	The ethics of eating animals	304
18	Hunting : the meat	334
19	Gathering : the fungi	364
20	The perfect meal	391