1. The Omnivore’s Dilemma WITH YOUR FRIENDS DYLAN, JACOB,SIERRA, MARIA

2. What should we have for dinner? T his book is a long and fairly involved answer to this seemingly simple question.

3. Part One Corn

4. Zea mays Read the ingredients on the label of any processed food and, provided you know the chemical names it travels under, corn is what you’ll find.

5. Government Subsidies Agriculture’s always going to be organized by the government; the question is, organized for whose benefit? Now it’s for Cargill and Coca-Cola. It’s certainly not for the farmer. George Naylor, corn farmer extraordinaore

6. Hybrid Corn Hybrid corn now offered its breeders what no other plant at that time could: the biological equivalent of a patent.

7. Industrial Food The meal at the end of the industrial food chain that begins in an Iowa cornfield is prepared by McDonald’s and eaten in a moving car.

8. Part Two Grass

9. All flesh is grass.

10. Big Organic The organic industry has become, in many ways, just as industrial as the conventional market.

11. Part Three Forest

12. The Perfect Meal 1. Start from scratch. 2. Nothing bought. 3. Animal, vegetable, fungus, mineral

13. Perfect Meal vs. Fast Food Both are equally unreal and equally unsustainable.