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Page 58
Does the beef-eating, cattle-slaughter ban significantly and arbitrarily reduce the
amount of animal foods available for human consumption? I doubt it. As part of a
preindustrial agricultural system burdened with supporting a dense population ...
Does the beef-eating, cattle-slaughter ban significantly and arbitrarily reduce the
amount of animal foods available for human consumption? I doubt it. As part of a
preindustrial agricultural system burdened with supporting a dense population ...
Page 99
Just as with modern-day agricultural revolutions, many farmers grew richer, but
more grew poorer. Conversion to horsepower and the three-field system led not
only to a rapid increase in agricultural productivity, but to an equally rapid rise in
...
Just as with modern-day agricultural revolutions, many farmers grew richer, but
more grew poorer. Conversion to horsepower and the three-field system led not
only to a rapid increase in agricultural productivity, but to an equally rapid rise in
...
Page 149
The Oriental lands which spurned dairying practice a form of intensive irrigation
agriculture which depended less on animal plowing then India's agricultural
system. As discussed in the chapter on the sacred cow, India's monsoon climate
...
The Oriental lands which spurned dairying practice a form of intensive irrigation
agriculture which depended less on animal plowing then India's agricultural
system. As discussed in the chapter on the sacred cow, India's monsoon climate
...
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Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 15 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
FOUR The Abominable Pig | 67 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and Culture A Touchstone book |
| Author | Marvin Harris |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster, 1987 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 12 Oct 2009 |
| ISBN | 0671633082, 9780671633080 |
| Length | 289 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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