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Re: New book "Food Wars"
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Tim Rowell <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:08:05 -0400
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At 12:05 PM 10/13/2004 -0500, you wrote:
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>Tim> Try "Against the Grain", by Richard Manning.  Intriguing subtitle,
>'How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization'.
>
>No offense, but it seems to me a dumb subtitle.  Agriculture didn't hijack
>civilization, it created civilization.
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The subtitle isn't "How Agriculture Didn't Create Civilization but Hijacked
It". I guess the subtitle would be best understood having actually read the
book.  I found the book very interesting and a good companion to Diamond's
'Guns, Germs, and Steel'.

Tim

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