Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory

by Vaclav Smil

Meat eating is often a contentious subject, whether considering the technical, ethical, environmental, political, or health-related aspects of production and consumption.

This book is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout their evolution and around the world. Setting the scene with a chapter on meat's role in human evolution and its growing influence during the development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118278720
• ISBN13: 9781118278727
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"