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———. The Raw and the Cooked: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, Volume 1. Trans. John and Doreen Weightman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
Mooallem, Jon. “The Last Supper: Living by One-handed Food Alone,” Harper’s (July 2005). My source for the statistic that 19 percent of American meals are eaten in the car.
Pinker, Steven. How the Mind Works (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997). Valuable on hunting and gathering; visual perception; the cognitive niche; and the evolution of disgust; the quote on “intuitive microbiology” is on page 383.
Pollan, Michael. “Our National Eating Disorder,” New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004.
Rozin, Paul, et al. “Attitudes to Food and the Role of Food in Life: Comparisons of Flemish Belgian, France, Japan and the United States,” Appetite (1999).
———, et al. “The Borders of the Self: Contamination Sensitivity and Potency of the Mouth, Other Apertures and Body Parts,” Journal of Research in Personality 29 (1995), 318–40.
———, et al. “The Cultural Evolution of Disgust,” in Food Preferences and Taste: Continuity and Change, ed. H. M. Macbeth (Oxford: Berghahn, 1997).
———, et al. “Disgust,” in Handbook of Emotions, 2nd ed., eds. Lewis M. and J. Haviland (New York: Guilford, 1999).
———, et al. “Lay American Conceptions of Nutrition: Dose Insensitivity, Categorical Thinking, Contagion, and the Monotonic Mind,” Health Psychology 15 (1996), 438–47.
———, and A. E. Fallon. “A Perspective on Disgust,” Psychological Review 94, no. 1 (1987), 23–41.
———, and J. Schulkin. “Food Selection,” in Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, Food and Water Intake, Volume 10, ed. E. M. Stricker (New York: Plenum, 1990), 297–328.
Wrangham, Richard, et al. “The Raw and the Stolen: Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins,” Current Anthropology 40, no. 5 (December 1999). Wrangham argues persuasively here and elsewhere that it is cooking that made us human.
CHAPTER 17: THE ETHICS OF EATING ANIMALS
Berger, John. About Looking (New York: Vintage International, 1991).
Budiansky, Stephen. The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Choose Domestication (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1992). A valuable book on the evolution of domestication in animals.
———. If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness (New York: The Free Press, 1998).
Coetzee, J. M. The Lives of Animals (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Dennett, Daniel C. Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness (New York: Basic Books, 1996).
Ehrenfeld, David. Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millenium (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. A. D. Melville. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Flannery, Tim. The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001). Flannery’s account of how the Plains bison evolved under the pressure of hunting by Indians is on pages 223–29; the quote is on page 227.
Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
———, and Peter Singer, eds. Animal Rights and Human Obligations (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989).
Scully, Matthew. Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002). An eloquent defense of animals, and an indictment of factory farming, from the right.
Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation (New York: Ecco, 2002).
———. Practical Ethics (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
———, ed. In Defense of Animals (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985).
Thomas, Keith. Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility (New York: Pantheon, 1983).
Williams, Joy. Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals (New York: Vintage, 2001).
Wise, Steven M. Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights (Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2002).
CHAPTER 18: HUNTING: