9. But both the Marxist and Weberian analysis ignores the role played by cows.
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10. Think about what dairy farming means: getting up early at the same time every day, submitting to the schedule of the cow.
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11. Would the Swiss have developed such precise watches if they didn't have to obey the biological commands of the cow.
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12. What's the prototypical protestant capitalist society? Holland. Also home of the Holstein Friesians & other splendid bovine creatures
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13. To paraphrase Diogenes, the farmer thinks he owns the cow, but it's the cow that owns the farmer.
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14. While the cow was able to reshape Europe, it's plans were frustrated in other regions of the world.
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14. North Africa, where humans also became lactose tolerant, lacked sufficient grazing capacity for massive dairy production.
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15. In India, the religious mystique surrounding cows joined with lactose intolerance. In China, lactose intolerance alone did the job.
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16. Did humans domesticate the cow, or did cows domesticate humans?
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17. Factory farming is horrible, but perhaps inevitable product of longtime relationship between cows & industrialization.
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18. Both factory farming and the climate crisis (where cow flatulence plays a role) argue that our relationship with nature is out of whack
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19. Together, cows and humans have made the modern world; together, we'll have to solve the crisis we've created.
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@HeerJeet Dude: http://www.amazon.com/Ecological-Imperialism-Biological-Expansion-Environment/dp/0521546184 …0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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