Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle CultureTaking us from ancient Sumer to the Dickensian disassembly lines of Chicago's stockyards, Jeremy Rifkin interweaves anthropology, sociology, economics and ecology in a brilliant and scathing examination and indictment of the cattle culture that has come to shape and warp our world. He cuts through the myth of the cowboy to illumine the international intrigue, political giveaways and sheer avarice that transformed the great American frontier into a huge cattle breeding ground. |
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Part SixThe Consciousness of BeefEating Cultures | 4 |
Part OneCattle and the Making of Western Civilization | 7 |
Sacrifice to Slaughter | 9 |
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