Some digital sources do not contain page numbers; in those cases, I’ve noted that the document was accessed online. Introduction [>] “Truly we may be called”: “Consumption of Meat,” American Farmer and Spirit of the Agricultural Journals of the Day 3, no. 2 (June 2, 1841): 9. [>] I respect the critics: Readers should note that my general argument in this book is a rejection, overt or otherwise, of the Marxists’ critique of “capital.” I am aware of that argument, and its complexities. I don’t agree with it and find it singularly useless for making substantive change. 1. CARNIVORE AMERICA [>] “[ran] over the grass”: Quoted in Virginia DeJohn Anderson, “King Philip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England,” William and Mary Quarterly 3d series, 51 (October 1994): 604. [>] “savage people”: Quoted in ibid., 604. [>] “advantageously . . . scituated”: Quoted in James S. Magg, “Cattle Raising in Colonial South Carolina”
