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The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan [228]

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in 2005 to slip language into a USDA appropriations bill restoring—and possibly expanding—the industry’s right to use synthetics in organic foods.

*There’s a Web site devoted to the principle of usufruct that offers maps to publicly accessible fruit trees in Los Angeles: fallenfruit.org.

Table of Contents

Cover

Praise

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

INTRODUCTION: 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: PASTORALGRASS

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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