Why might meats be valued more than plants as food in many societies? Cultural Anthropology Week 2 Meats can play a very critical role in many cultures, not just for substance but also in some cases because of the environment they get more nutrition form meat than plants. Livestock is also seen in many religious texts, either as a symbol, sacrifice, or parable. Every Region has its own food that it finds desirable. Different cultures will select food their society is comfortable with or has a plentiful about of.
Hunting and gathering is a collective effort amongst the Ju/’hoansi men and women, and the portions are divided amongst everyone. The act of sharing is an important aspect of life for the Ju/'hoansi and without it living would be harder, if not impossible, and unpleasant. Claiming land ownership in the Ju/’hoansi society is very different than that of American society. In America we purchase the land and claim it as our own and decide if we will leave it to our families. In our society, our kin is not able to just claim our land simply because it is owned by another kin.
The factories are very dangerous places to work and most workers, hired specifically by the companies are undocumented citizens. These people feel that because they don’t have the proper papers for work, they don’t have proper rights, so they complain less about unsatisfactory working conditions. By supporting these huge companies we are not only harming the animals rights but we are allowing these companies to treat their employees with the same lack of respect as they have for the animals. I would now like to go on and explore an alternative meat processing industry, the organic one. People nowadays know that eating organic is usually better, not only does it taste better, but it is more beneficial for the environment, our health, and ethically.
You still got all the nutrients and vitamins from foods that are not local. Plus they still taste good. If our community were to start a locavore movement it would affect everyone because we would have to make more space for crops and farmers. Also farmers from around the world would also have fewer costumers. As Source C shows, it actually takes just as much fuel—and thus, just as much pollution—to ship a small load from a local farm as to ship a large load from a farther location.
In rural areas especially, this policy has created many problems, this is because men are seen as more useful on land. With more than half of China’s population living in the countryside and rural areas, this is a very big problem. Poorer farmers may have some land, but on the other hand they do not have enough money to pay for workers, so more children are needed to work on the land, preferably boys. Gender-based abortions are not so uncommon, so nowadays doctors are not meant to tell couples the gender of their babies, but this rule is easily avoided with the special ‘red envelopes’ that contain bribes for the doctors. The Policy has made it harder for the government economically.
If people hunted just for the meat, then no one would do it. Weather hunting is a necessity or not, a man or women will benefit and feel successful when they accomplish the goal of hunting and killing their own food (Jackson). At one time, hunting was the only means of human survival. The men generally took on the task while the women cooked the game. In the past it was very ethical to hunt, because it was the only way a man could survive.
Although before the Civil War, women rarely took a part in society, the war significantly changed women’s roles in many ways. Before the Civil War, women typically worked in and around their homes. The typical housewife would cook, clean and raise many children while the men worked. Many people typically did not promote women to branch out outside their homes, particularly stated by historian, Linda Miles Coppens that “Horace Man, president of Ohio’s new interracial and coeducational college publishes ‘A Few Thoughts on the Power and Duties of Women’ in New York. He warns women against vocations of preaching or politics, explaining that they can influence public opinion in their homes and communities.” They were strictly housewives and were destined to raise children.
Consider 8,000 BCE, where men and woman hunted and gathered as means to survive. Since food was scarce, men and woman were forced to work together; this meant that women were just as equal as men. However, as agriculture developed, women were becoming increasingly confined to the home. The idea of social stratification emerged and men were suddenly more important than women. Social inequality is a major flaw in the world today, and it can surely be blamed on the technological progress that is considered to be a breakthrough in global economies.
There are similarities of reproduction in human as well as with animal species. It has the same role as to producing more animals so that they will not be extinct or if they don’t produce then there will be some rare animal extinction. Protection is a touchy subject; it can cause conflict between man and woman. Protection is what some people will say “king of the jungle”, but in some other prospective women now a days are play the male role in the family. They are protection there family and children because there is no male figure in the home.
C.) The availability of domestic plants and animals explain why empires, literacy, and steel weapons developed earliest in Eurasia since people can settle in permanent homes and produce crops and domesticate animals, there is no reason to be a hunter and gatherer. Also the fact that people didn’t need to hunt everyday since they can conserve food, people started to take on different jobs and hobbies since they were thriving and had a lot of free time so they developed more jobs. Other places were skeptical about become farmers so they stayed as hunters and gathers which kept their technology from advancing. D.) The factors that contributed to hunter-gathers becoming farmers were decline of wild foods, depletion of wild game, spread of germs and rise of human population. Being a producer of food has more profit than the profit of Hunters and Gathers make.