The Meat Question
Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food
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- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
22 October 2019
Summary
A provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous.Humans are eating more meat than ever. Despite ubiquitous Sweetgreen franchises and the example set by celebrity vegans, demand for meat is projected to grow at twice the rate of demand for plant-based foods over the next thirty years. Between 1960 and 2010, per capita meat consumption in the developing world more than doubled; in China, meat consumption grew ninefold. It h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262042895 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262042894 |
| Author: | Josh Berson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 588g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 27mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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After reading The Meat Question, I have a better understanding of why it is not effective to use single issue arguments like health, environment, climate change and animal cruelty to convince people to reduce or eliminate their animal consumption…Berson shows us how to think about eating animals in broader terms.
—TruthdigJosh Berson’s ‘The Meat Question: Animals, Humans, and the Deep History of Food,’ helped me see that the evidence for meat-eating’s “rightness” for humans is thin.
—SlateAbout The Author
Josh Berson
Josh Berson is an independent social scientist. He has held research appointments at the Berggruen Institute and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, among other places. He is the author of Computable Bodies- Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche.
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