Full Belly: A New Look on Food and Society

Aviad Kleinberg

2005

Eating and Being Eaten

We eat to live. The world is one vast dining room, in which each living thing both consumes and is consumed, in infinite cycles. Everything alive is a potential foodstuff. Big fish eat little fish. Carnivores eat herbivores and both are eventually eaten by worms and maggots that are in turn eaten by birds that are eaten by…

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Aviad Kleinberg

b. 1957

Aviad Kleinberg is a professor of history at Tel Aviv University. He studied at the University of Toronto, and writes about medieval religious and historical topics. Kleinberg also serves as the director of the Tel Aviv University Press and writes a column for the Israeli newspaper Yediot aḥaronot.

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