New Left Review I/215, January-February 1996

Alexander Cockburn

A Short, Meat-Oriented History of the World From Eden to the Mattole

Start with God.

‘And [Peter] saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.’ (Acts 10: 11–13.)

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