What I try to do in this book is to approach the dinner question as a naturalist . . .

"What I try to do in this book is to approach the dinner question as a naturalist might using the long lenses of ecology and anthropology as well as the shorter more intimate lense of personal experience. My premise is that, like every other creature on Earth, humans take part in a food chain and our place in that food chain, or web, determines to a considerable extent what kind of creature we are." . . . M . . . The Omnivore's Dilemma . . . "Introduction" . . .