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Meat, a natural symbol / Nick Fiddes.

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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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