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ISBN 1-59420-082-3 1. GT2850 .P65 2006.   2. Food habits.  3. Food preferences.   I.Title. GT2850.P65 2006 394.T2—dc22 2005056557\nPrinted in the United States of America 13   15   17   19   20   18   16 14\nDESIGNED BY MARYSARAH QUINN\nWithout limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.\nThe scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrightable materials. Your support of the author's rights is appreciated.\nFOR JUDITH AND ISAAC\n\u000f\nCONTENTS\nintroduction Our National Eating Disorder 1\nI INDUSTRIAL CORN\none The Plant: Corn's Conquest 15\ntwo The Farm   3 2\nthree The Elevator 57\nfour The Feedlot: Making Meat 65\nfive The Processing Plant: Making Complex Foods 85\nsix The Consumer: A Republic of Fat 100\nseven The Meal: Fast Food 109\nII\tPASTORAL GRASS\neight All Flesh Is Grass 123\nnine Big Organic 134\nten Grass: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pasture 18 5\neleven The Animals: Practicing Complexity 208\ntwelve Slaughter: In a Glass Abattoir 226\nthirteen The Market: \"Greetings from the Non-Barcode People\" 239\nfourteen The Meal: Grass-Fed 262\n\u0013 INCLUDEPICTURE  \"http://0\" \\* MERGEFORMATINET \u0014\n\u0015  PERSONAL THE FOREST\nfifteen The Forager 277\nsixteen The Omnivore's Dilemma 287\nseventeen The Ethics of Eating Animals 304\neighteen Hunting:The Meat 334\nnineteen Gathering :The Fungi 364\ntwenty The Perfect Meal 391\nacknowledgments 413\nsources 417 \tindex 437\nINTRODUCTION\nOUR NATIONAL EATING DISORDER\nWhat should we have for dinner?\nThis book is a long and fairly involved answer to this seemingly simple question. Along the way, it also tries to figure out how such a simple question could ever have gotten so complicated. As a culture we seem to have arrived at a place where whatever native wisdom we may once have possessed about eating has been replaced by confusion and anxiety. Somehow this most elemental of activities—figuring out what to eat—has come to require a remarkable amount of expert help. 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