What should we have for dinner? Should we eat a fast-food hamburger or something organic? According to award-winning journalist Michael Pollan, author of the New York Times bestseller and one of the 10 Best Books of 2006, The Omnivore's Dilemma, how we answer this question may determine our very survival as a species. Pollan's definitive account of the American way of eating takes us from Iowa cornfields to food-science laboratories, from feedlots to organic farms, always emphasizing our dynamic relationship with the plant and animal species we depend on. What's at stake in our eating choices is not only our health, but the health of the environment that sustains life on earth.