Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers. Marvin Harris Read Quote
When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother’s milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk. Marvin Harris Read Quote
Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough. Marvin Harris Read Quote
There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let’s look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs. Marvin Harris Read Quote
The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits. Marvin Harris Read Quote
The commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’ does not say it’s O.K. to kill some people and not others. Marvin Harris Read Quote
The answer has to be sought in the material conditions of the production and utilization of cattle in India compared with the production and utilization of cattle in other parts of the world. Marvin Harris Read Quote
Like most North Americans, I’d been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it’s so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy. Marvin Harris Read Quote
Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can’t use it as a regular source of food. Marvin Harris Read Quote
Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities. Marvin Harris Read Quote
