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- From: altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar)
- Subject: Re: _Sexual Politics of Meat_/gender of meat animals
- Message-ID: <altar.728008056@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1993Jan25.143928.13077@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:27:36 GMT
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- kalin@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (andrew.j.kalinowitsch) writes:
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- >Aren't most of the animals raised for consumption by the meat
- >industry female (chickens vs. roosters, cows vs. bulls/steers,
- >etc.)? This is an assumption on my part; i have no data to back
- >it up. Does anybody know if this is true, and if so, why? Is
- >any mention of this made in _The Sexual Politics of Meat_?
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- Steve Russell has already answered your first question. With respect
- to your second, again the answer is yes. Does this mean that
- you will buy a copy of the book? ;-)
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- Cheers,
- ted
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