The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

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By Michael Pollan

"One of the 10 best books of the year" —The New York Times Book Review

From the introduction: "Eating is an agricultural act," as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much as been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world—and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating in ignorance are fleeting. Many people today seem perfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them. There are things in it that will ruin their appetites. But in the end this is a book about the pleasures of eating, the kinds of pleasure that are only deepened by knowing.

Softcover, 437pp, index

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