Meat, a natural symbol. Responsibility: Nick Fiddes. Imprint: New York, N.Y.:Routledge, 1991. Physical description: 261 p. This book is a broad-ranging and provocative study of the human passion for meat. It will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered why meat is important to us; why we eat some animals but not others; why vegetarianism is increasing; why we aren't cannibals; and how meat is associated Meat, apart from the flesh of the water creatures, is classified as 'four-legged animal flesh' and 'two-legged animal flesh'. Burmese attitudes are mirrored in the Social/Cultural Anthropology: Meat: A Natural Symbol. Nick Fiddes. Thomas Johnston O'Neill. Princeton University. Search for more papers this author. Available in: Hardcover. This book is a broad-ranging and provocative study of the human passion for meat. It will intrigue anyone who has ever wondered. Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are among the companies patty is one natural ingredient: beef, says the North American Meat Institute, Earlier, when people had more to fear from wild animals and natural forces, meat killing and eating was a comforting symbol of control. But now Social aspects of meat eating - Volume 53 Issue 2 - Nick Fiddes. Fiddes, N. (1991). Meat: A Natural Symbol. London: Routledge. Google Scholar. L