Should We Eat Meat?

Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory

By: Vaclav Smil

Technology & Engineering

this book is a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout history and around the world. setting the scene with a chapter on meat's role in human evolution and its growing influence during the development of agricultural practices, the book goes on to examine modern production systems, their costs, efficiencies and outputs. the major...