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  <title><![CDATA[Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture (Plume)]]></title>
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  <default_description>A brilliant and devastating examination and indictment of the cattle culture that has come to shape and warp our world. Rifkin shows how the love affair with beef has led to increased hunger, disease, and environmental devastation. This persuasive book should be an urgent warning to everyone who cares about the fate of the earth.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1992</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture (Plume)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jeremy Rifkin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 26 19:34:47 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 26 19:52:24 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rifkin's book, beyond Beef, is a truly insightful history lesson about America's love affair with Beef. This author has some very interesting ideas about why our Founding Father wanted to eradicate the American Indians from the plains - to make room for their grazing cattle. He also blames the Briti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31283731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33292382">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 19 14:46:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 05 12:52:36 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Continuing in my trend of food-based books, this is another alarming display of our industrial food system.  Specifically, targeting the cow and all of its ill-begotten fortunes.<br/><br/>I was already inclined to buy the arguments in this book, and aware of the &quot;hoofed-locust&quot; destructi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33292382">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1505217">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 28 21:30:27 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 28 21:32:06 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very well-written history of the beef cattle industry.  The book covers the environmental impacts of the beef industry, health concerns, and modern meat processing in addition to historical developments. <br/>This is getting somewhat outdated by the passage of time, but I feel it is probably still ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1505217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38574226">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 10:39:32 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The history of cattle in relationship to  which the word itself (etymologically preceding &quot;capital&quot;). Lots of juicy, eye-opening history, which is brutal. Very interesting read...we'll see if I can get through it without becoming vegetarian. doubtful.]]></body>
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    <review id="34215516">
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 30 13:11:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 30 13:11:00 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this book as a teenager I didn't eat beef for a little while.  Since then I've been around some big cattle ranches and realize Rifkin is very one sided and leaves parts of the story out.  Now days I still don't eat much beef, but that is because a great mighty hunter taught me how to h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34215516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6376465">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I became a vegetarian in January of 2000 (over 7 1/2 years ago now), and I picked this book up shortly after. If nothing else, it sealed the deal for me. I am a life-long veggie. Very critical, but honest look at the cattle industry in our nation. ]]></body>
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    <review id="25440271">
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    <name><![CDATA[mmk]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good history book. Lots of historical references. Bashes the cow and blames it for everything wrong with the world. Author waxes philosophical near the end. A good read, if taken with a grain of salt!   ]]></body>
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    <review id="18721783">
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 26 18:32:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In some ways this is a modern version of Upton Sinclair's <em>The Jungle</em>. The descriptions of abattoirs might make one think twice about eating much meat. It's a good history of the beef industry.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18721783]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="40545347">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For people who really take pride in their carnivorous habits, this is a reasonable, solid examination of what led us to believe that steak for all was a moral good.  Interesting history.]]></body>
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    <review id="34484438">
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    <body><![CDATA[Made me never want to eat beef again.  And I have not for more than 15 years since reading this book.  Probably a bit dated now, but I doubt much has changed.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 16 20:15:41 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a hard read - I never did finish. Anyone else encounter troubles staying focused with this book? Hmm...]]></body>
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    <review id="9850928">
    <user id="650494">
    <name><![CDATA[Randall]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[a great historical perspective on meat (esp beef) in societies past and present.]]></body>
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    <review id="5187312">
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    <body><![CDATA[this book made me a vegetarian for six years.]]></body>
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    <review id="54461021">
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting book about the cattle industry and the effects of grazing cattle on our environment. I actually stopped eating beef for awhile after reading this. ]]></body>
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