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How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet

✍️ Egan, Sophie
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🏛 Workman Publishing 📅 2020 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781523507382

📝 Description: How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet

A lively, surprising, and necessary guide to navigating our food choices--is a certain food OK for your health? OK for the environment? How do I know if the people who grow or create it are fairly treated?--by an expert in public health from the Culinary Institute of America.

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Egan’s text serves as a necessary compass for the conscientious cook, yet it may frustrate readers seeking specific recipes or hard-and-fast nutritional dogmas. It suits those interested in the 'why' behind their food choices more than those looking for the 'what' to put on the plate. Readers expecting dense scientific data or rigid dietary rules might find the tone too broad. However, for anyone wishing to understand the human and environmental cost of their grocery cart, this accessible entry point offers a compelling, if somewhat abstract, starting place for deeper investigation into ethical eating.
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Egan’s text serves as a necessary compass for the conscientious cook, yet it may frustrate readers seeking specific recipes or hard-and-fast nutritional dogmas. It suits those interested in the 'why' behind their food choices more than those looking for the 'what' to put on the plate. Readers expecting dense scientific data or rigid dietary rules might find the tone too broad. However, for anyone wishing to understand the human and environmental cost of their grocery cart, this accessible entry point offers a compelling, if somewhat abstract, starting place for deeper investigation into ethical eating.

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