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The Face on Your Plate: The Truth about Food

✍️ Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff
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🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 📅 2010 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9780393338157

📝 Description: The Face on Your Plate: The Truth about Food

The bestselling author of "When Elephants Weep" explores humans' relationship with the animals they call food. Masson investigates how denial keeps people from recognizing the animal at the end of their fork as well as each culture's distinctions among animals considered food and those that are forbidden.

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