After reading Beyond Beef, I would encourage the consumption of beef. It seems that what I have gathered from the book is that there are too many cows on earth. One way to decrease the number would be to consume them. Another way would be for governments to put a limit on how many cattle one can raise.
             "In Australia, the number of cows exceeds the number of people by 40 percent. In South America, there are nine cows for every ten people. In Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, the cattle population equals or exceeds the human population. The worlds cattle population has increased by 5 percent in the past decade."(153)
             Beef has been part of the human culture for as long as cattle has roamed the earth. One can try to decrease its consumption, but I feel it would be impossible. People depend on it and take it for granted. I think that the number of people that depend on beef would be larger than the number of people who think it is interfering with grain consumption and our environment.
             "Of the millions of animals that live and interact with us here on earth, one species in particular has played a unique and central role in the human odyssey. The bull and the cow, of the bovine species, have traveled with us from the very beginning of our sojourn. Their fate and ours have been intertwined in a myriad of ways and at every critical juncture of human history. We have seen ourselves in them and we have used them to create our culture. Western civilization has been built, in part, on the back of the bull and cow."(16-17)
             Eating is an essential part of life. We must eat in order to survive. It is unfortunate, but is also part of the food chain, that most people include meat or beef as a regular part of their diet. In some cultures right now and in the past it has been masculine to eat beef. In Spain, bull fighting has been synonymous with machoism. It has been excepted in culture that wo
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