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The argument from rights

Kerry Walters

Kerry Walters is William Bittinger Professor of Philosophy at Gettysburg College, PA, USA, where he also co-founded the Peace and Justice Studies program. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
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Vegetarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Continuum, 2012

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...What sort of dinner is not costly for which a living creature loses its life? Do we hold a life cheap? It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice. In his book Dominion: The Power...

Vitamin K and Vitamin K–Dependent Proteins

Myrtle Thierry-Palmer

Myrtle Thierry-Palmer
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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...The term “vitamin K” was first introduced by Henrik Dam in 1935, following discovery of a fat-soluble substance that could prevent bleeding (Dam 1935, 1964). During the years 1928 to 1930, Dam conducted studies on the cholesterol metabolism...

Nonfoods as Dietary Supplements

R. E. Hughes

R. E. Hughes
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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Food: A substance (of natural origin) ingested to maintain life and growth. Diet: The habitual pattern of consumption of food and drink. Supplement: That which supplies a deficiency or fulfills...

Food Allergies

Susan L. Hefle

Susan L. Hefle
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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Adverse Food Reactions and Allergies An adverse food reaction is defined as any untoward reaction following...

Food-Borne Infection

Sujatha Panikker

Sujatha Panikker
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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Numerous infectious diseases are acquired by the ingestion of contaminated food, milk, or water. Such illnesses have a worldwide distribution, although, predictably, the incidence is greatest in those countries where deficiencies exist...

Introduction

Proteins, Pathologies and Politics : Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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...If the 1980s may have been the high point of food additives – with Coca-Cola able to double the sales of ‘Tab’ in test markets by fortifying the fizzy diet drink with calcium...

Bread/dead

Scott Cutler Shershow

Scott Cutler Shershow is Professor of English at University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author of five books, including Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate (2014). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
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Bread

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...The gospel of many recent diet books has been aptly summarized as being “bread, the staff of life, is really the staff of death.”Levinovitz, Gluten Lie, 26. Levinovitz, Gluten Lie, 26.Strangely enough, however, the expression “staff...

Epilogue: Destabilizing Patriarchal Consumption

Carol J. Adams

Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books, including the seminal The Sexual Politics of Meat (Bloomsbury Revelations). She is the co-editor of several path-breaking anthologies, including most recently Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (co-edited with Lori Gruen, Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Carol J. Adams Reader (2016). Her work is the subject of two recent anthologies, Defiant Daughters: 21 Women of Art, Activism, Animals, and The Sexual Politics of Meat and The Art of the Animal: 14 Women Artists Explore The Sexual Politics of Meat, in which a new generation of feminists, artists, and activists respond to Adams' groundbreaking work. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
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The Sexual Politics of Meat : A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The eating of animal flesh, an easy matter of course for most people unless made complex by ritual warnings, may yet turn out to be a problem of psycho-social evolution when humankind comes to review and reassess the inner and outer...

Nutrition and Mental Development

Donald T. Simeon

Donald T. Simeon
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Sally M. Grantham-McGregor

Sally M. Grantham-McGregor
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© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Most research on nutrition and human mental development has focused on protein–energy malnutrition (PEM), which consists of deficits in energy and protein as well as other nutrients (Golden 1988). But there is also an extensive literature...

Phosphorus

John J. B. Anderson

John J. B. Anderson
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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Phosphorus (abbreviated as P) is a highly toxic element, which, when it occurs in the form of a phosphate salt, becomes a nutrient essential for human health. Phosphates are found in practically every type of food and, consequently...

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The argument from rights

Vitamin K and Vitamin K–Dependent Proteins Myrtle Thierry-Palmer Myrtle Thierry-Palmer Search for publications The Cambridge World History of Food © Cambridge University Press, 2000 Encyclopedia entry

Vitamin K and Vitamin K–Dependent Proteins

Nonfoods as Dietary Supplements R. E. Hughes R. E. Hughes Search for publications The Cambridge World History of Food © Cambridge University Press, 2000 Encyclopedia entry

Nonfoods as Dietary Supplements

Food Allergies Susan L. Hefle Susan L. Hefle Search for publications The Cambridge World History of Food © Cambridge University Press, 2000 Encyclopedia entry

Food Allergies

Food-Borne Infection Sujatha Panikker Sujatha Panikker Search for publications The Cambridge World History of Food © Cambridge University Press, 2000 Encyclopedia entry

Food-Borne Infection

Introduction Proteins, Pathologies and Politics : Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 Book chapter

Introduction

Bread/dead

Epilogue: Destabilizing Patriarchal Consumption

Nutrition and Mental Development Donald T. Simeon Donald T. Simeon Search for publications and Sally M. Grantham-McGregor Sally M. Grantham-McGregor Search for publications The Cambridge World History of Food © Cambridge University Press, 2000 Encyclopedia entry

Nutrition and Mental Development

Phosphorus John J. B. Anderson John J. B. Anderson Search for publications The Cambridge World History of Food © Cambridge University Press, 2000 Encyclopedia entry