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Beyond Beef :
The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture

by Jeremy Rifkin

ISBN 0452269520 / 9780452269521 / 0-452-26952-0
Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Language English
Edition Softcover
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Americans have a love affair with beef. The average American consumes the meat of seven 1,100-pound steers in a lifetime. But how many hamburger-lovers realize that a single boneless beefsteak requires up to 1,200 gallons of precious water to produce, that livestock now consume nearly one third of the world's grain, or that cattle play a central role in species extinction? [via]