The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig: Riddles of Food and CultureSimon & Schuster, 1987 - 289 páginas |
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... pound for every three to five pounds it eats while a calf needs to eat ten pounds to gain one . A cow needs nine months to drop a single calf , and under modern conditions the calf needs another four months to reach four hundred pounds ...
... pound for every three to five pounds it eats while a calf needs to eat ten pounds to gain one . A cow needs nine months to drop a single calf , and under modern conditions the calf needs another four months to reach four hundred pounds ...
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... pounds at the turn of the century to 54.9 pounds in 1940. The rangeland beef boom had greatly narrowed the difference be- tween pork and beef consumption , but it did not last long enough to close the gap . In 1900 , there was still a ...
... pounds at the turn of the century to 54.9 pounds in 1940. The rangeland beef boom had greatly narrowed the difference be- tween pork and beef consumption , but it did not last long enough to close the gap . In 1900 , there was still a ...
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... pounds of chicken meat per year . While adverse medical findings and rising retail prices have led United States consumers to eat 15 pounds less of beef per capita since 1976 , consumption of chicken has zoomed by 11.2 pounds . If these ...
... pounds of chicken meat per year . While adverse medical findings and rising retail prices have led United States consumers to eat 15 pounds less of beef per capita since 1976 , consumption of chicken has zoomed by 11.2 pounds . If these ...
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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