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... societies . Com- panionship is so central to their use in such societies that some professional animal caretakers have stopped calling pets " pets " and have taken to calling them " companion animals " instead . For example , the clinic ...
... societies . Com- panionship is so central to their use in such societies that some professional animal caretakers have stopped calling pets " pets " and have taken to calling them " companion animals " instead . For example , the clinic ...
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... societies : state societies have more productive econ- omies enabling their farmers and workers to produce large sur- pluses of food and other goods ; state societies have political sys- tems which can place conquered territories and ...
... societies : state societies have more productive econ- omies enabling their farmers and workers to produce large sur- pluses of food and other goods ; state societies have political sys- tems which can place conquered territories and ...
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... societies that have suppressed warfare cannibalism for thousands of years , and therefore find the notion of people eating abhorrent . This leads them to assume ethnocentrically that there must be some great compelling reason for people ...
... societies that have suppressed warfare cannibalism for thousands of years , and therefore find the notion of people eating abhorrent . This leads them to assume ethnocentrically that there must be some great compelling reason for people ...
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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