Overview
- Explores our changing relationship with meat as food
- Combines narrative with history to offer an engaging cultural history
- Identifies key problems and discusses possible solutions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress (NAHP, volume 5)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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The story part of the book follows the rise and fall of meat, and illustrates how this type of food has become a problem in a more emotional way. The historical component informs and offers readers key data. The author draws on theories of circular societies, smart cities and smart countries to explain how and why forms of meat production that were common in the past have since all but disappeared.
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Both components, however, explain why meat has been important and why it has now become a problem. In tracing the fall of meat, the author identifies a host of dilemmas. These include fossil energy, pollution, illnesses caused by eating meat, factory farming, and processed foods.
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Lastly, the book offers a possible solution. The answer focuses on new forms of meat obtained without killing animals and in a sense resembles renewable energy. Overall, this unique cultural history offers revealing insights into how meat affects social relations, interpersonal relationships, and humanity as a whole.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Body Fuel to Universal Poison
Book Subtitle: Cultural History of Meat: 1900-The Present
Authors: Francesco Buscemi
Series Title: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72086-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72085-2Published: 04 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89140-8Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72086-9Published: 13 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2510-442X
Series E-ISSN: 2510-4438
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 154
Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Studies, Sustainable Development, Ethics, Nature Conservation, Quality of Life Research