ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Bourbon Whiskey, Horse Meat, Dog Meat
25 Sep 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Evan Reed
Ant 101
Introduction to Anthropology
Fall 2018
Professor Yawin
Food crisis and the American diet
● most people who came from the new world were farmers and it was hard work so not
many were overweight
- there were no food stores
- religion dictated that gluttony was a sin
● New Englanders raised mostly sheep, fished, ate fowl, deerand wild game
- They grew rye (wheat and barley didn’t grow well) and ate corn, squash, beans,
pumpkins etc
- Planted fruit trees and nuts and various berries
- Made all their clothes and tools
- Couldn’t raise pigs because of the food
- There were few horses
- Plowed with oxen
- In the 1900s horse meat was used as dog meat
- Americans consider them pets and you don’t eat pets
- Europe is the world’s leading exporter of horse meat and it goes to france and japan
- Pope Gregory III in AD 732 forbid catholics from eating horse meat after the batte of
tours
- Lamb and mutton were main meats
● They raised pigs in the south, had few cows and few horses and used oxen for plowing
- They DIDN’T RAISE SHEEP
- Main diet was pork beans and corn
- Cotton and corn were their main commercial crops
- They made lots of bourbon whiskey from corn
- Northerners bought lots of ham and bacon
- Corn beans and rice were the main starches in the south
- They didn’t raise lamb or mutton or goat
- For awhile in the 1820s booze was cheaper than soda water
● The north
- Rapid population growth led to large cities and small towns
- Had good railroad systems and roads
- Industry was powered by water wheels and steam
- Wool and industrial goods were main export
- Industry job attracted immigrants from Europe
- Puritan values were impotant
- People lived a frugal Spartan lifestyle and distrusted authority
● The south
Document Summary
Most people who came from the new world were farmers and it was hard work so not many were overweight there were no food stores religion dictated that gluttony was a sin. New englanders raised mostly sheep, fished, ate fowl, deerand wild game. They grew rye (wheat and barley didn"t grow well) and ate corn, squash, beans, pumpkins etc. Planted fruit trees and nuts and various berries. Couldn"t raise pigs because of the food. Americans consider them pets and you don"t eat pets. Europe is the world"s leading exporter of horse meat and it goes to france and japan. Pope gregory iii in ad 732 forbid catholics from eating horse meat after the batte of. In the 1900s horse meat was used as dog meat tours. They raised pigs in the south, had few cows and few horses and used oxen for plowing. Main diet was pork beans and corn. Cotton and corn were their main commercial crops.
