Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no … - Marvin Harris

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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.

Marvin Harris

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 for the nutritional well-being of their followers.

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

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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

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Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people. ' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior - based on information collected through fieldwork.

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Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

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

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