Cow (reaktion Books - Animal)
by Hannah Velten /
2007 / English / PDF
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From the milk we drink in the morning, to the leather shoes
we slip on for the day, to the steak we savor at dinner,
our daily lives are thoroughly bound up with cows. Yet
there is a far more complex story behind this seemingly
benign creature, which Hannah Velten explores here,
plumbing the rich trove of myth, fact, and legend
surrounding these familar animals.
From the milk we drink in the morning, to the leather shoes
we slip on for the day, to the steak we savor at dinner,
our daily lives are thoroughly bound up with cows. Yet
there is a far more complex story behind this seemingly
benign creature, which Hannah Velten explores here,
plumbing the rich trove of myth, fact, and legend
surrounding these familar animals.
From the plowing
field to the rodeo to the temple, Velten tracks the
constantly changing social relationship between man and
cattle, beginning with the domestication of aurochs around
9000 BCE. From there,
From the plowing
field to the rodeo to the temple, Velten tracks the
constantly changing social relationship between man and
cattle, beginning with the domestication of aurochs around
9000 BCE. From there,Cow
Cow launches into a
fascinating story of religious fanaticism, scientific
exploits, and the economic transformations engendered by
the trade of the numerous products derived from the animal.
She explores in engaging detail how despite cattle’s
prominence at two ends of a wide spectrum: Hinduism
venerates the cow as one of the most sacred members of the
animal kingdom, while beef is a prized staple of the
American diet. Thought provoking and informative,
launches into a
fascinating story of religious fanaticism, scientific
exploits, and the economic transformations engendered by
the trade of the numerous products derived from the animal.
She explores in engaging detail how despite cattle’s
prominence at two ends of a wide spectrum: Hinduism
venerates the cow as one of the most sacred members of the
animal kingdom, while beef is a prized staple of the
American diet. Thought provoking and informative,Cow
Cow restores this oft-overlooked animal to the
nobility it richly deserves.
restores this oft-overlooked animal to the
nobility it richly deserves.
