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Meat : a natural symbol / Nick Fiddes

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1991Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (x, 261 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203283929
  • 0203283929
  • 9780203168141
  • 0203168143
  • 0415048370
  • 9780415048378
  • 9781134878826
  • 1134878826
  • 9781134878772
  • 113487877X
  • 9781134878819
  • 1134878818
  • 9781138834071
  • 1138834076
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Meat.DDC classification:
  • 394.1 22
LOC classification:
  • GT2868.5 .F54 1992eb
Other classification:
  • 71.59
  • LC 17000
Online resources:
Contents:
Food = meat -- A brief history of meat eating -- A matter of taste -- More than a meal -- Evolution and elevation -- The power of meat -- The barbarity of meat -- The reluctant cannibal -- Pets and other grey animals -- The joy of sex -- Economics -- Health -- Ethics -- Ecology -- Conclusions
Summary: This book is a broad-ranging and provocative study of the human passion for meat. It will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered why meat is important to us; why we eat some animals but not others; why vegetarianism is increasing; why we aren't cannibals; and how meat is associated with environmental destruction
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This book is a broad-ranging and provocative study of the human passion for meat. It will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered why meat is important to us; why we eat some animals but not others; why vegetarianism is increasing; why we aren't cannibals; and how meat is associated with environmental destruction

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-247) and indexes

Food = meat -- A brief history of meat eating -- A matter of taste -- More than a meal -- Evolution and elevation -- The power of meat -- The barbarity of meat -- The reluctant cannibal -- Pets and other grey animals -- The joy of sex -- Economics -- Health -- Ethics -- Ecology -- Conclusions

Description based on print version record

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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