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  title info:
    title: Should we eat meat?
    sub title: evolution and consequences of modern carnivory
  name:
    name part: Smil, Vaclav.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (278 pages)
  abstract: 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, the book goes on to examine modern production systems, their costs, efficiencies and outputs. The major global trends of meat consumption are described: what part does meat play in changing modern diets in countries around the world? The heart of the book addresses the consequences of the "massive carnivory."
  table of contents: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  table of contents: Meat substitutes and cultured meatProtein from other animal foodstuffs; Less meaty diets; A large potential for rational meat production; Prospects for Change; References; Index.
  note: Vaclav Smil.
  subject:
    topic: Meat
  subject:
    topic: Meat industry and trade
  subject:
    topic: Vegetarianism
  subject:
    topic: Meat
    topic: Health aspects
  subject:
    topic: COOKING
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Food Science
  subject:
    topic: Meat
  subject:
    topic: Meat industry and trade
  subject:
    topic: Vegetarianism
  classification: QP144.M43 S65 2013
  classification: 641.3 641.36
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    title info:
      title: Should We Eat Meat Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory : Should We Eat Meat? Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
    name:
      name part: Smil, Vaclav.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Wiley, ©2013
  identifier: 9781118278710
  identifier: 1118278712
  identifier: 9781118278703
  identifier: 1118278704
  identifier: 9781118278697
  identifier: 1118278690
  identifier: FC47E4FF-552C-4134-9918-6B022BAF4E91 OverDrive, Inc.
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118278710
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 130323
    record change date: 20170124065939.1
    record identifier: ocn831119168
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng