The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and CultureSimon & Schuster, 1987 - 289 páginas |
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... chicken than beef by the end of the century . The chicken revolution was long overdue . By nature and breed- ing , chickens are about as efficient as pigs in converting grain to meat and five times more efficient than cattle . Some of ...
... chicken than beef by the end of the century . The chicken revolution was long overdue . By nature and breed- ing , chickens are about as efficient as pigs in converting grain to meat and five times more efficient than cattle . Some of ...
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... chicken sandwich . When food experts tell us that food habits are the parts of culture that change most slowly - so slowly that America's pref- erence for beef harks back to Vedic times — they have obviously not paid much attention to ...
... chicken sandwich . When food experts tell us that food habits are the parts of culture that change most slowly - so slowly that America's pref- erence for beef harks back to Vedic times — they have obviously not paid much attention to ...
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... chicken eats better than three fifths of the people in the world . And ener- getically speaking , each calorie of chicken breast costs at least six calories of fossil fuel . This means that the sumptuous diet of America's chickens ( and ...
... chicken eats better than three fifths of the people in the world . And ener- getically speaking , each calorie of chicken breast costs at least six calories of fossil fuel . This means that the sumptuous diet of America's chickens ( and ...
Contenido
ONE Good to Think or Good to Eat? | 13 |
TWO Meat Hunger | 19 |
THREE The Riddle of the Sacred Cow | 47 |
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