>>9782499... would you eat the mutt ?
Thats the concept of cultural materialism the eminent anthropologist Marvin Harris posited. The reason Indians dont eat their oxen is because they could not sow the field the next year. Similarly arabs and jews cant support pigs ancestrally, they require huge grain stocks and water, so it became proscribed as an edict from god. Europeans of course turn boar loose in the forest and then have a permanent source of protein when the winter came.
