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... camels , donkeys , horses , and water buffalo . Why not apothe- osize the camel ? Many farmers do actually employ camels for pulling plows in the arid northwestern regions of India . But the specifications for the ideal Indian plow ...
... camels , donkeys , horses , and water buffalo . Why not apothe- osize the camel ? Many farmers do actually employ camels for pulling plows in the arid northwestern regions of India . But the specifications for the ideal Indian plow ...
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... camel . " For , as I have just said , with the exception of the camel , all land animals implicitly or explicitly forbidden in Leviticus — all the equines , felines , ca- nines , rodents , rabbits , reptiles , and so forth — are ...
... camel . " For , as I have just said , with the exception of the camel , all land animals implicitly or explicitly forbidden in Leviticus — all the equines , felines , ca- nines , rodents , rabbits , reptiles , and so forth — are ...
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... camel's hump con- centrates fat - not water . It acts as an energy reserve . By con- centrating the fat in the hump ... camel meat nor camel milk could ever have constituted a significant portion of the an- cient Isarelites ' food supply ...
... camel's hump con- centrates fat - not water . It acts as an energy reserve . By con- centrating the fat in the hump ... camel meat nor camel milk could ever have constituted a significant portion of the an- cient Isarelites ' food supply ...
Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
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