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Meat, a natural symbol / Nick Fiddes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fiddes, Nick, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meat.
- Food--Symbolic aspects.
- Food.
- Food habits.
- Food preferences.
- Carnivora.
- Meat industry and trade.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Introduction; 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; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 92-870-1190-7
- 1-134-87882-6
- 1-138-83407-6
- 1-280-32606-9
- 9786610326068
- 0-203-28392-9
- 9780203168141
- OCLC:
- 54873907
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