Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Acknowledgments 9
4. Introduction: The Best Kinds of Meat That I Have Eaten in America 11
5. 1. Tastes Like Chicken: Fashioning an Appetite for the Americas 25
6. 2. To Satisfy Cruel Hunger: Edibility and Starvation in the Animal Typology 47
7. 3. Revenge Eating: Animal Executions and Performative Eating 69
8. 4. For It Is Not Edible: The New Colonial Food System as a Form of Colonization 85
9. 5. Consuming Empire : Commodifying the Animal and the Americas in the Colonization Narrative 113
10. Conclusion: “Dirty Animals” 137
11. Bibliography 143
12. Index 153