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Meat makes people powerful : a global history of the modern era /

From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat - more than any other food - has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, Americans have been among the most avid meat-eaters in the world, but long before that meat was not even considered a key ingredient in most civilization...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warren, Wilson J., 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nineteenth-century meat cultures
  • Nineteenth-century limited meat cultures
  • Debating meat's dietary role
  • The state and meat
  • Transforming meat cultures and other uses of animal products
  • The political economy of meat after World War II
  • Meat workers as outcastes
  • A plague of pigs and other environmental dilemmas
  • Your safest course is to let meat alone
  • Meat in the twenty-first century.