The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and CultureSimon & Schuster, 1987 - 289 páginas |
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... efficiency of tractors versus oxen shows that the animals are more cost - efficient per unit of crop produced under the conditions which prevail throughout most of India . While a thirty - five - horsepower tractor can plow a field ...
... efficiency of tractors versus oxen shows that the animals are more cost - efficient per unit of crop produced under the conditions which prevail throughout most of India . While a thirty - five - horsepower tractor can plow a field ...
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... efficient sources of meat than goats or sheep , and this explains why pigs and cattle have until recently been the ... efficiently than cattle . Pigs , therefore , could be raised for most of their lives on free " pasture " -the bounty ...
... efficient sources of meat than goats or sheep , and this explains why pigs and cattle have until recently been the ... efficiently than cattle . Pigs , therefore , could be raised for most of their lives on free " pasture " -the bounty ...
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... efficient as pigs in converting grain to meat and five times more efficient than cattle . Some of the newest breeds are designed to exceed the efficiency of pigs and convert 1.92 pounds of high - protein feed to one pound of meat ...
... efficient as pigs in converting grain to meat and five times more efficient than cattle . Some of the newest breeds are designed to exceed the efficiency of pigs and convert 1.92 pounds of high - protein feed to one pound of meat ...
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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