The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan [226]
maltodextrin
maltose
Mambelli, Stefania
mannitol
Marriage of the Sun and Moon, The (Weil)
Marx, Leo
Mather, Cotton
Maya, as corn people
McDonald’s
McGovern, George
McKenna, Terence
meals:
fast food, corn-based
grass-fed
from hunter-gatherers
organic industrial
perfect, see perfect meal true cost of
meat:
avoidance of
bacteria in
brining
cheap
cheeseburgers
curing
from feedlots
fossil fuels in production of
free range
from grass-eating animals
irradiation of
morality of eating
packaging of
philosophy of cooking
price of
meatpacking corporations
media, influence of
metolachlor
metropolitan buying clubs
Metzin, Mel
mill starch
Mission Ranches
molasses
monarch butterflies
monoculture
Monsanto Corporation
Montanari, Massimo
morels
MSG
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
mushrooms, see fungi
Mushrooms Demystified (Arora)
mycelium
Nation, Allan
National Beef Plant
National Park Service
nature:
connectedness in
diversity in
food chain in
forgetting about
going back to
human manipulation of
and human morality
imbalance in
improving on
liberating food from
and machine
no waste in
and organic ideal
population crashes in
predation in
reproduction in
tension between human industry and
transformation of
see also animals; plants
Nature Conservancy
Naylor, George:
and corn prices
and family farm see also Naylor farm
on farm policy
and food chain
and grain elevator
income of
planting corn
productivity of
Naylor, Peggy
Naylor curve
Naylor farm
neophobia/neophilia
neurons
neutrons
New Deal
Newman, Paul, dressing by
nitrates
nitrogen
in compost
in feedlot wastes
fixing
in natural system
in N-P-K fertilizers
pollution from
synthetic
Nixon, Richard M.
nucleic acid
obesity
omega fatty acids
omnivore’s dilemma
abundance of food
American paradox
animal happiness
animal rights
animal suffering
and disgust
ethics of eating animals
and food chain
and food industry
food safety
food selection
food taboos
free agency in
morality of eating meat
morality of killing animals
reality denied in
vegetarianism
organic, use of term
organic farming:
access to pasture in
additives and synthetics in
biodiversity in
chemical-free
connectedness in
conversion to
and countercuisine
economics of
farm as living organism in
government standards for
industrial trend of
information distributed in
input substitution in
Is it better?
local-food movement
modeled on nature
philosophical foundations of
price of
sixties movement to
stories of
year-round production of
Organic Food and Production Act (OFPA),
Organic Gardening and Farming (Rodale)
Ortega y Gasset, José
overnutrition
Ovid
pellagra
People’s Park, Berkeley
Pepsi cola
Perdue, Frank
Perdue chickens
perfect meal
costliness of
in the kitchen
philosophy of
planning the menu for
rules for
schedule for
at the table
pesticides, chemical
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
Petaluma Eggs
Petaluma Poultry
Petrini, Carlo
petroleum, see fossil fuels
phosphorus
photosynthesis
pigs:
in CAFOs
as cattle feed
considering the life of
indoor lives of
in the perfect meal
on Polyface Farm
surgeons practicing on
tail docking
wild or feral see also hunting
Pimentel, David
Pinker, Steven
plants:
chemicals required for growth of,
cooking
corn, see corn
defenses of
energy gleaned from
evolution of
extinction of
grasses, see grasses
identification of
identifying with
as intellectual property
as medicines
photosynthesis of
secondary metabolites in
symbiosis of
syntax of
plastic, manufactured from corn
Plato
Poky Feeders
Pollan, Isaac
Polyface Farm:
in alternative food chain
barn
cattle grazing
chickens
customers of
diversity of
Eggmobile
food chain