The Omnivore's Dilemma: Young Readers Edition

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Penguin, Oct 15, 2009 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 352 pages
This acclaimed bestseller and modern classic has changed America’s relationship with food. It’s essential reading for kids who care about the environment and climate change.

“What’s for dinner?” seemed like a simple question—until journalist and supermarket detective Michael Pollan delved behind the scenes. From fast food and big organic to small farms and old-fashioned hunting and gathering, this young readers’ adaptation of Pollan’s famous food-chain exploration encourages kids to consider the personal and global implications of their food choices. 

With plenty of photos, graphs, and visuals, The Omnivore’s Dilemma serves up a bold message to the generation most impacted by climate change: It’s time to take charge of our national eating habits—and it starts with you.

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Contents

Introduction
How Corn Took Over America
The Farm Chapter 3 From Farm to Factory
THE GRAIN ELEVATOR Chapter 5 The FeedlotTurning Corn into Meat
Processed Food
Fat from Corn
The Omnivores Dilemma
My FastFood Meal PART II The Industrial Organic Meal Chapter 10 Big Organic
More Big Organic
Poly face Farm Chapter 13 Grass Chapter 14 The Animals
The Slaughterhouse Chapter 16 The Market
My GrassFed Meal
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About the author (2009)

Michael Pollan is the author of five books: Second Nature, A Place of My Own, The Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, and the national bestellers, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and In Defense of Food.

A longtime contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.

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