The Omnivore's Dilemma

"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 The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A World Appears, This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Twenty years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and-with The Omnivore's Dilemma, his groundbreaking 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. Twenty years later, The Omnivore's Dilemma continues to transform.

Michael Pollan, recently featured on Netflix in the four-part series Cooked, is the author of seven previous books, including Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at Berkeley. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world. www.michaelpollan.com

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