Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture

摘要: How many hamburger lovers realize that a single boneless beefsteak requires more than 1,000 gallons of precious water to produce, livestock now consume nearly one-third the world's grain, or cattle play central role in species extinction? Taking us from ancient Sumer automated factory feedlots, Jeremy Rifkin interweaves anthropology, history, sociology, economics, health and ecology an examination indictment culture has come shape warp our society. He depicts world which poorer peoples have been starved support beef addiction handful wealthy nations - resulted millions deaths heart attacks, cancer strokes. also describes grim ecological effects culture: rain forests burned, fertile plains turned into desert, climate threatened by global warming.