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Should We Eat Meat?

by Vaclav Smil · 2013

Vaclav Smil's analysis of meat production, human diets, environmental costs, and modern carnivory.

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Scholar of energy, environment, food, and technical change.

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Gates Notes list via Vanity Fair · article

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Each of these books made me think or laugh or, in some cases, do both.
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Vanity Fair · 2015-05-19 · accessed 2026-06-22

The article says VF.com and Gates Notes teamed up to debut Gates's 2015 list and names Should We Eat Meat? as one of the seven books.

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