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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.
~ Marvin Harris
Consuming
Good
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Introduction
Revolution
Situation
Sugar
Techniques
Various
Which
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Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect.
~ Marvin Harris
About
Being
Challenged
Concept
Done
Every
Explain
Incorrect
Just
More
Open
Presented
Previous
Proven
Scientific
Than
Theories
Theory
Tries
World
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Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
~ Marvin Harris
About
Account
Activity
Behaviour
Different
Different Kinds
Engage
Food
How
Human
Human Activity
Human Behaviour
Kinds
Like
People
Principal
Sex
Wonder
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Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
~ Marvin Harris
About
Attitude
Compared
Could
Different
Different Attitude
East
Exist
Forests
Good
Here
Letting
Middle
Middle East
Part
Pigs
Raised
Root
Them
Therefore
Toward
Where
Year
You
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However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.
~ Marvin Harris
Beings
Case
Clear
Condition
Further
However
Human
Human Beings
Humans
Mammals
Most
Normal
Other
Pretty
Research
Seems
Shown
Why
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I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.
~ Marvin Harris
Any
Cases
Enjoying
Follow
Food
Found
Know
Less
Particular
Population
Precepts
Religion
Religious
Result
Than
Themselves
Where
Would
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I think that by following the route that I have tried to outline, one gets into a much more interesting and productive series of questions than those that result from saying simply that Chinese don't like milk because they don't like milk.
~ Marvin Harris
Because
Chinese
Following
Gets
I Think
Interesting
Like
Milk
More
Much
Outline
Productive
Questions
Result
Route
Saying
Series
Simply
Than
Think
Those
Tried
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If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.
~ Marvin Harris
Also
Approaching
Bear
Bring
Enlightened
Feel
I Can
I Feel
Light
Like
Only
People
Problems
Question
Questions
Some
Way
Will
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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
American
Because
Been
Being
Everybody
First
Food
Good
Growing
Growing Up
Healthy
Important
Like
Milk
Most
Must
North
Notion
Raised
Up
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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
Become
Could
Danger
Good
Industrial
Large
Much
Now
Part
Quantities
Really
Significant
Situation
Things
Too
Too Much
Us
Which
World
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Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.
~ Marvin Harris
Eat
Food
Grass
Hungry
Pigs
Regular
Source
Use
Very
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Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.
~ Marvin Harris
Animals
Available
Clean
Dirty
Else
Frequently
Giving
Mud
Nothing
Notion
Own
Pigs
Prefer
Rise
Wallow
Will
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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
Answer
Cattle
Compared
Conditions
India
Material
Other
Parts
Production
Sought
Utilization
World
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The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.
~ Marvin Harris
Commandment
Does
Others
People
Say
Shalt
Some
Some People
Thou
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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
Commercial
Contribute
Efficiency
General
Most
Our
Overall
Production
Profits
Proposition
Resources
Search
System
Third
Will
World
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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
Alternative
Beings
Competing
Conditions
Following
Human
Human Beings
Important
Issues
Look
Material
Needs
Practical
Production
Raised
Route
Satisfaction
Says
Solutions
Systems
Those
Very
Which
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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
Avoid
Begun
Enough
Exploiting
Faced
Food
Food Industry
Had
Had Enough
Industry
Knowing
Measures
Not Knowing
Our
Situation
Taking
Unfortunately
Weakness
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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
Ability
Able
Begin
Birth
Child
Consume
Digest
Eat
Enough
Foods
Gives
Milk
Mother
Needs
Off
Old
Old Enough
Other
Some
Switching
Woman
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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
Acted
Behind
Decrease
Eat
Followers
General
Good
Out
Potential
Principle
Religions
Research
Well-Being
World
Yes
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