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Should we eat meat? : evolution and consequences of modern carnivory /

This book is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout history and around the world. Setting the scene with a chapter on meat's role in human evolution and it's growing influence during the development of agricultural practices,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smil, Vaclav
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Wiley, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Meat in Nutrition; Meat Eating and Health: Benefits and Concerns; Meat and its nutrients; Meat as a source of food energy; High-quality protein and human growth; Carnivory and civilizational diseases; Diseased meat; 2 Meat in Human Evolution; Hunting Wild Animals: Meat in Human Evolution; Primates and hominins; Meat consumption during the Paleolithic period; Extinction of the late Pleistocene megafauna; Hunting in different ecosystems; Wild meat in sedentary societies. 
505 8 |a Traditional Societies: Animals, Diets and LimitsDomestication of animals; Population densities and environmental imperatives; Long stagnation of typical meat intakes; Avoidances, taboos and proscriptions; Meat as a prestige food; 3 Meat in Modern Societies; Dietary Transition: Modernization of Tastes; Urbanization and industrialization; Long-distance meat trade; Meat in the Western dietary transition; Transitions in modernizing economies; Globalization of tastes; Output and Consumption: Modern Meat Chain; Changing life cycles; Slaughtering of animals; Processing meat. 
505 8 |a Consuming and wasting meatMaking sense of meat statistics; 4 What It Takes to Produce Meat; Modern Meat Production: Practices and Trends; Meat from pastures and mixed farming; Confined animal feeding; Animal feedstuffs; Productivity efficiencies and changes; Treatment of animals; Meat: An Environmentally Expensive Food; Animal densities and aggregate zoomass; Changing animal landscapes; Intensive production of feedstuffs; Water use and water pollution; Meat and the atmosphere; 5 Possible Futures; Toward Rational Meat Eating: Alternatives and Adjustments; Meatless diets. 
505 8 |a Meat substitutes and cultured meatProtein from other animal foodstuffs; Less meaty diets; A large potential for rational meat production; Prospects for Change; References; Index. 
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