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... sheep . Horses feeding on natural pasture , in other words , need 33 percent more grass than cattle or sheep just to maintain their own weight . But the actual disadvantage is even greater . Horses are active animals , with higher ...
... sheep . Horses feeding on natural pasture , in other words , need 33 percent more grass than cattle or sheep just to maintain their own weight . But the actual disadvantage is even greater . Horses are active animals , with higher ...
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... sheep ? Sheep - especially lamb - ranks consider- ably higher in terms of gustatory prestige than goat , but far below cattle and pigs . Per capita consumption of mutton and lamb— mostly lamb in the United States is tiny compared with ...
... sheep ? Sheep - especially lamb - ranks consider- ably higher in terms of gustatory prestige than goat , but far below cattle and pigs . Per capita consumption of mutton and lamb— mostly lamb in the United States is tiny compared with ...
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... sheep could not be as profitable as raising pork and beef , which , as I pointed out in the previous chapter , the English were eager to import in prodigious amounts . Gradually the taste of lamb and especially mutton became unfamiliar ...
... sheep could not be as profitable as raising pork and beef , which , as I pointed out in the previous chapter , the English were eager to import in prodigious amounts . Gradually the taste of lamb and especially mutton became unfamiliar ...
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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