"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 uniq

Chopped beef or hamburgers have become a regular in many lives. Everyday people enjoy burgers at BBQ's, restaurants, and fast food joints. The hamburger was introduced in 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair. But legend says that beef was first put between two pieces of bread in Ohio in 1892.

ue 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)

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Approximate Word count = 767
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)