Omnivore’s Dilemma
“In the U.S. we put more than seven times the amount of energy into growing, transporting, and storing food than we get out of the food itself.”
– Michael Pollan (from University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems)
Nonfiction (Ecology)
Omnivore’s Dilemma: Young Readers Edition (October & November)
- Part 1: The Industrial Meal: Food From Corn- Chapters 1-10
- How Corn Took Over America
- The Farm
- From Farm to Factory
- The Grain Elevator
- The Feedlot- Turning Corn into Meat
- Processed Food
- Fat From Corn
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma
- My Fast-Food Meal
- Part 2: The Industrial Organic Meal – Chapters 10-11
- Big Organic
- More Big Organic
- Part 3: The Local Sustainable Meal: Food From Grass- Chapters 12-17
- Polyface Farm
- Grass
- The Animals
- The Slaughterhouse
- The Market
- My Grass-Fed Meal
- Part 4: The Do-It-Yourself Meal: Hunted, Gathered, and Gardened Food- 18-22