Book
The Omnivore's Dilemma
- Published
- 2006
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Pages
- 450
- Words
- 68242
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3109.The_Omnivore_s_Dilemma?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_24
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 6.8
- AR interest level
- MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
- Lexile
- 930L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 11–14
- Ambleside year
- Years 10–12 · ages 15–20
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
What should we have for dinner? The question has confronted us since man discovered fire, but according to Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Botany of Desire, how we answer it today, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, may well determine our very survival as a species. Should we eat a fast-food hamburger? Something organic? Or perhaps something we hunt, gather, or grow ourselves? The omnivore’s dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet confronts us with a bewildering and treacherous food landscape. What’s at stake in our eating choices is not only our own and our children’s health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780143038580
- ISBN-10
- 0143038583
Tags
Community Life-PoliticsEnvironmentFoodNutrition