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Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. mans went on killing cattle and getting fat from eating them . I cannot say precisely how the Brahmans and Kshatriyas continued to obtain cattle for their gluttonous feasts , but taxation ...
Riddles of Food and Culture Marvin Harris. mans went on killing cattle and getting fat from eating them . I cannot say precisely how the Brahmans and Kshatriyas continued to obtain cattle for their gluttonous feasts , but taxation ...
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... cattle , the quality of cattle has deteriorated with declining milk yield and draft efficiency . . . the effort has been to compensate the declining efficiency by increasing the num- ber of cattle . . . . the increase in the number of ...
... cattle , the quality of cattle has deteriorated with declining milk yield and draft efficiency . . . the effort has been to compensate the declining efficiency by increasing the num- ber of cattle . . . . the increase in the number of ...
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... cattle , but not for raising pigs . Hungry pigs will eat anything , and on certain grasses such as alfalfa they can even gain weight . But no one was going to turn pigs loose to roam the plains of Texas and Kansas . Grass was to cattle ...
... cattle , but not for raising pigs . Hungry pigs will eat anything , and on certain grasses such as alfalfa they can even gain weight . But no one was going to turn pigs loose to roam the plains of Texas and Kansas . Grass was to cattle ...
Contents
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
Copyright | |
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