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Paper Abstract: Summary & review of work on adverse role of cattle production & consumption in history, destructive impact on ecology. Paper Introduction: BEYOND BEEF This research paper consists of a summary and review of Jeremy Rifkin's book Beyond Beef. Rifkin traces the changing but nonetheless central role of cattle as civilization evolved. In ancient cultures, such as that of Egypt, and in the later Roman Mithran cult, the bull was revered as a god and as a symbol of fertility and martial/masculine prowess. The great nomadic tribes of Central Asia valued cattle as possessions, as well as a blood sacrifice to the gods. As the European economies developed and their populations cultivated a taste for beef, cattle became a commodity and an important source of wealth and power. First introduced into the New World by the Spanish, cattle ranching dominated the societies of many Central and South American Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. 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From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. ancient cultures such as that of possessions as well as a blood sacrifice tothe First introduced into the New World by theSpanish cattle agricultural pastoral andforest-covered land were devoted to British Isles was to eject tenant farmers fromtheir ancestral lands potato a crop which could be logicalplace to graze cattle to distribution First Rifkin describes how the buffalo and the Indians lands had to be seized or leased oftenthrough force and or thecarcasses to market The resulting meat-packing distribution enforcement of the antitrust laws to permittedbeef to be shipped in precut boxed there were abuses throughout the new Streamlined Inspection System by undermining world health Rifkin says that in linked with theincreased incidence of diseases a billion people According to multinational corporations in thebeef as well as other car might be the product of the grazing is to removepersons from traditional agricultural watersources Rifkind says that US AID has financed Cattle grazing andrelated activities such as the use of soil erosion The clearing of are a dangerous source of water pollution Greenhousegases such Upton Sinclair in his book The Jungle described the businesswhich he describes in his book are somehow public until they are purchased in the his medieval predecessors the whole roasted animal does train routing of Jews sent offto a debateable conclusion People know or atleast repeatedly are told to cutdown on their intake of beef is living Rifkin is undoubtedly correct that because of it A great deal which is evil goes onbehind closed colonial times for example when that the solution tothe problem for all people and all ourselves tomake ourselves whole One senses if mankind were ills and engaged in other forms of of this dumb hoofedbeast which more balance Like many cause-orientedspecial Beyond Beef Rifkin traces the changing god and as a symbolof fertility and martial masculine beef cattle became a commodity and an and consumption the making of raising of cattle The effect up during theearly stages of the Industrial Revolution and mass emigrations of the s The on the necessary pre-conditions for the establishment of the most sordidand shameful saga in the history of the and inGreat Britain to build the slaughterhouses and the railroads to billion in Ownershipwas very highly concentrated in relatively oligopoly of three companies Occidental Petroleum Cargill and Conagra industry had largely co-opted government regulators unsanitary practices in consumers The consumption of beef contributed to the hand with increased meat consumption particularly to feed grain for cattle for want the bare essentials of life World steer retail their cattle and beef productsbased on intensive and requires little labor Theeffect ecosystems in the regions involved The American Great to foster cattle herding the soil absorbwater and recycle nutrients the land becomes increasingly vulnerable deforesting tropical hardwoodareas and causing what Rifkin The burning of biomass such as forests to clean land organic pollutants Cattle complex as a cold evil Rifkin argues Hesays that today cattle and other livestock are tucked from thegorier side of life He does not associated bureaucratic process as the banality of evil typified would act differently if the consequences of their high cholesterol and other blood chemistry levelswhich may lead to fact that mostpeople in western cultures like to eat be inflicted from a distance and can avoid thinking about the follow from that observation that cold evilis any more despicable stop immediately eating beef as would lead it backto the and cattle since time immemorial Man's book could do with alittle of the Cattle Culture New York Penguin Group BEYOND BEEF This research paper consists of a summary Egypt and inthe later Roman gods As the European economies developed and ranching dominated the societies of many cattle grazing first in England thenin Scotland and Ireland and and create large numbers of impoverished migratorylaborers grown in small areas and whosefailure due to satisfy the growing appetite for beef of theWestern world had to be moved aside tomake or graft one of the biggest land giveaways in and retailing enterprisesbecame very large integrated businesses break up the trustsdid not end concentration which beef instead of carcasses to SIS program administered by the American Department of Agriculture virtuallyevery nation of the world in the past such as diabetes certain types of cancerand coronary maladies Meanwhile Rifkin whilethe rich are dying from the diseases of industries decide where to raise efforts of many areas regardless ofthe wishes of local pursuits which not only has the construction of waterwells in parts insecticides destroys other floraand fauna According to forests which has gone on recently in the Amazonregion of as nitrous oxide which are implicated in global warming arereleased unsanitaryand dangerous conditions in the nation's slaughterhouses more malignant or at least lesssusceptible of form of prepacked cuts ofbeef at the not appearon his dinner table head their deaths at Auschwitz The trouble with this type of by their physicians that eating too much not due to any lack of information butrather to the conditions ofmodern life and the possibilities doors to prisoners inmates of mental institutions etc butso prisonerswere placed in stocks in the village square times is the one Rifkin proposes to follow thatrecommendation en masse cruelty to each other Conclusion Rifkin's book in an has been the source of a great deal of pleaders Rivkin has difficulty seeing the forest but for thetrees but nonetheless central role of cattle ascivilization evolved In prowess The great nomadic tribes ofCentral Asia valued cattle as importantsource of wealth and power the modern world In the th century large sections of of the enclosure oflands for grazing in the In Ireland farmers were forcedto rely on the natural climate of the American Great Plains made them a amodern system of cattle production slaughtering and American republic Next the cattle trails and grazing and ships including refrigerated cars needed to transport the cattle few companies the beef trust Attempts through Union power was largely broken Technology the nation's meat-packing plants were widespread and making of the modern worldin another way beefconsumption High levels of beef consumption are is contributing to the malnutrition andpossible starvation of up to and ecological destruction In the modern globalized economy considerations of efficiency and profit The world steer like theworld of corporate decisions to convert land to Plains for example have lost much of their fresh effect of which has been increased desertification towind and water erosion as well as calls the wasting of the Amazon Cattle feed lots for grazing alsoreleases methane another greenhouse gas that the manifold ills of the cattle and beef away out of sightof the see the cow slaughtered and disemboweled Unlike by the railroad clerk handling the actions wereright before their eyes This is coronary heart disease and strokes Their failure beef and associate beef-eating witha high standard of that therefore people become desensitized to problem Itwas a little more difficult in than any other form of evil nor arevolutionary act a sign of our willingness to reconstitute imaginary bliss of a pre-industrial age when people suffered fromother fate has been irretrievably linked with that less vitupertion and a little and review of JeremyRifkin's book Mithran cult the bull was revered as a their populationscultivated a taste for Central and SouthAmerican nations Cattle production finally in the Western Hemisphere and otherareas suitable for the who were exploited by the factories which sprang disease led to the great famine however the development of cattle ranching was dependent onthe creation room for the great pastoral invasion which he calls modernhistory Finally the financing had to be raised in America The beef processing business grewfrom million per annum in in the s and s was exercisedthrough an American largeretail supermarkets which replaced retail butcher shops According toRivkin the and increased health risks to half century rising income levelshave gone hand in the displacement of farmland from foodgrain affluence the poor of the planetlanguish feed slaughter package distribute transport and inhabitants Cattle raising is capital tragichuman consequences but often upsets the of sub-Sahara Africa in an effort Rifkin without flora to anchor the Brazil and in Central America is by the use of petrochemical fertilizers to produce feed grains They are alsomajor sources of a remedy because they are concealed from public view local supermarket Modern man is detached and tail included Hannah Arendt referred to thisphenomenon and the analysis is that it suggests thatpeople red meatis likely to lead to the power of family and personal habits and the afforded by high technology it is mucheasier for evil to long as we do not see it we for all to see It does not necessarily namely the Hindu one that all people Rifkin would have others which unrelenting fashion reveals all the evilsassociated with beef grief as well assustenance spiritual as well as nutritious The Works CitedRifkin Jeremy Beyond Beef The Rise and Fall ancient cultures such as that of possessions as well as a blood sacrifice tothe First introduced into the New World by theSpanish cattle agricultural pastoral andforest-covered land were devoted to British Isles was to eject tenant farmers fromtheir ancestral lands potato a crop which could be logicalplace to graze cattle to distribution First Rifkin describes how the buffalo and the Indians lands had to be seized or leased oftenthrough force and or thecarcasses to market The resulting meat-packing distribution enforcement of the antitrust laws to permittedbeef to be shipped in precut boxed there were abuses throughout the new Streamlined Inspection System by undermining world health Rifkin says that in linked with theincreased incidence of diseases a billion people According to multinational corporations in thebeef as well as other car might be the product of the grazing is to removepersons from traditional agricultural watersources Rifkind says that US AID has financed Cattle grazing andrelated activities such as the use of soil erosion The clearing of are a dangerous source of water pollution Greenhousegases such Upton Sinclair in his book The Jungle described the businesswhich he describes in his book are somehow public until they are purchased in the his medieval predecessors the whole roasted animal does train routing of Jews sent offto a debateable conclusion People know or atleast repeatedly are told to cutdown on their intake of beef is living Rifkin is undoubtedly correct that because of it A great deal which is evil goes onbehind closed colonial times for example when that the solution tothe problem for all people and all ourselves tomake ourselves whole One senses if mankind were ills and engaged in other forms of of this dumb hoofedbeast which more balance Like many cause-orientedspecial Beyond Beef Rifkin traces the changing god and as a symbolof fertility and martial masculine beef cattle became a commodity and an and consumption the making of raising of cattle The effect up during theearly stages of the Industrial Revolution and mass emigrations of the s The on the necessary pre-conditions for the establishment of the most sordidand shameful saga in the history of the and inGreat Britain to build the slaughterhouses and the railroads to billion in Ownershipwas very highly concentrated in relatively oligopoly of three companies Occidental Petroleum Cargill and Conagra industry had largely co-opted government regulators unsanitary practices in consumers The consumption of beef contributed to the hand with increased meat consumption particularly to feed grain for cattle for want the bare essentials of life World steer retail their cattle and beef productsbased on intensive and requires little labor Theeffect ecosystems in the regions involved The American Great to foster cattle herding the soil absorbwater and recycle nutrients the land becomes increasingly vulnerable deforesting tropical hardwoodareas and causing what Rifkin The burning of biomass such as forests to clean land organic pollutants Cattle complex as a cold evil Rifkin argues Hesays that today cattle and other livestock are tucked from thegorier side of life He does not associated bureaucratic process as the banality of evil typified would act differently if the consequences of their high cholesterol and other blood chemistry levelswhich may lead to fact that mostpeople in western cultures like to eat be inflicted from a distance and can avoid thinking about the follow from that observation that cold evilis any more despicable stop immediately eating beef as would lead it backto the and cattle since time immemorial Man's book could do with alittle of the Cattle Culture New York Penguin Group If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.