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Like most North Americans, I’d been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it’s so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy.  (Marvin Harris Quotes) Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.  (Marvin Harris Quotes) When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother’s milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.  (Marvin Harris Quotes) There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let’s look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.  (Marvin Harris Quotes) Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East  (Marvin Harris Quotes) Like most North Americans, I’d been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because it’s so good and so important for growing up and for being healthy  (Marvin Harris Quotes) Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough  (Marvin Harris Quotes) However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings  (Marvin Harris Quotes) The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits  (Marvin Harris Quotes) If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions  (Marvin Harris Quotes) Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour  (Marvin Harris Quotes) In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery  (Marvin Harris Quotes) I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone  (Marvin Harris Quotes) When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother’s milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk  (Marvin Harris Quotes) There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs  (Marvin Harris Quotes) Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals  (Marvin Harris Quotes) Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities  (Marvin Harris Quotes) Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it’s a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have done. It is open to being challenged and to being proven incorrect  (Marvin Harris Quotes) Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can’t use it as a regular source of food  (Marvin Harris Quotes) I don’t know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn’t follow this particular religion  (Marvin Harris Quotes)