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Book Review of Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddle of Culture

Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: The Riddle of Culture
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Parts of this book are fascinating and parts are boring as hell.

I really enjoyed reading about how not eating cows in India and the Jewish/Moslem edict against eating pork really make excellent, ecological and economical sense. I had wondered about these apparent 'stupid' ideas all my life. Now I am more knowledgeable and content to realize I was the foolish (ignorant) one.

But when he gets into Jesus, witches and some other stuff. I lost interest quickly. Fortunately, this is only in the last third of the book and each topic is a chapter in itself. So you can skip the parts you have no interest in.