The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006)

Science Cover 1 Copyright page 10 Contents 13 Introduction: Our National Eating Disorder 17 I. Industrial – Corn 29 1 The Plant: Corn's Conquest 31 1. A Naturalist in the Supermarket 31 2. Corn Walking 35 3. The Rise of Zea Mays 39 4. Married to Man 42 5. Corn Sex 44 2 The Farm 48 1. One Farmer, 129 Eaters 48 2. Planting the City of Corn 51 3. Vanishing Species 54 4. There Goes the Sun 57 5. A Plague of Cheap Corn 63 6. The Sage of Purdue 67 7. The Naylor Curve 69 3 The Elevator 73 4 The Feedlot: Making Meat 81 1. Cattle Metropolis 81 2. Pastoral: Vale, South Dakota 84 3. Industrial: Garden City, Kansas 88 5 The Processing Plant: Making Complex Foods 101 1. Taking the Kernel Apart: The Mill 101 2. Putting It Back Together Again: Processed Foods 106 6 The Consumer: A Republic of Fat 116 7 The Meal: Fast Food 125 II. Pastoral – Grass 137 8 All Flesh Is Grass 139 1. Green Acres 139 2. The Genius of the Place 141 3. Industrial Organic 146 9 Big Organic 150 1. Supermarket Pastoral 150 2. From People's Park to Petaluma Poultry 156 3. Down on the Industrial Organic Farm 174 4. Meet Rosie, the Organic Free-Range Chicken 185 5. My Organic Industrial Meal 189 10 Grass: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pasture 201 1. Monday 201 2. Monday Evening 208 3. Monday Supper 218 11 The Animals: Practicing Complexity 224 1. Tuesday Morning 224 2. Tuesday Afternoon 235 12 Slaughter: In a Glass Abattoir 242 1. Wednesday 242 13 The Market: "Greetings from the Non-Barcode People" 255 1. Wednesday Afternoon 255 2. Thursday Morning 266 14 The Meal: Grass-Fed 278 III. Personal – The Forest 291 15 The Forager 293 1. Serious Play 293 2. My Forager Virgil 298 3. Hunter Ed. 300 16 The Omnivore's Dilemma 303 1. Good to Eat, Good to Think 303 2. Homo Omnivorous 305 3. The Anxiety of Eating 311 4. America's National Eating Disorder 314 17 The Ethics of Eating Animals 320 1. The Steakhouse Dialogues 320 2. The Vegetarian's Dilemma 329 4. Animal Suffering 331 5. Animal Happiness 335 6. The Vegan Utopia 341 7. A Clean Kill 344 18 Hunting: The Meat 350 1. A Walk in the Woods 350 2. A Cannabinoid Moment 353 3. Ready. Or Not. 360 4. My Pig 365 5. Making Meat 370 19 Gathering: The Fungi 380 1. Five Chanterelles 382 2. Mushrooms Are Mysterious 389 3. Working the Burn 394 20 The Perfect Meal 407 1. Planning the Menu 409 2. In the Kitchen 415 3. At the Table 421 Acknowledgments 429 Sources 433 Introduction: Our National Eating Disorder 433 1 The Plant: Corn's Conquest 433 2 The Farm 434 3 The Elevator 437 4 The Feedlot: Making Meat 437 5 The Processing Plant: Making Complex Foods 439 6 The Consumer: A Republic of Fat 440 7 The Meal: Fast Food 441 8 All Flesh Is Grass 441 9 Big Organic 441 10 Grass: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pasture 445 11 The Animals: Practicing Complexity 445 12 Slaughter: In a Glass Abattoir 446 13 The Market: "Greetings from the Non-Barcode People" 446 14 The Meal: Grass-Fed 447 15 The Forager 448 16 The Omnivore's Dilemma 448 17 The Ethics of Eating Animals 449 18 Hunting: The Meat 450 19 Gathering: The Fungi 450 20 The Perfect Meal 451 Index 453 A 453 B 454 C 454 D 456 E 456 F 457 G 459 H 460 I 460 J 461 K 461 L 461 M 461 N 462 O 463 P 463 R 465 S 465 T 466 U 466 V 466 W 466 X 466 Y 466 Z 466 ( --Other Releases-- ) -1 science;,food science,food