Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human….

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that ….

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a dif….

There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the systems….

Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate's nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For thou….

Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it's so good and so importan….

Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and beh….

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they ….

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultur….

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are co….

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others..

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery.

Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential….

Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things w….

Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have don….

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other ….

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone..

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food..