Description: salting of slaughtered and sacrificed animals, achieved two critical human/animal requirements: physiological, and use as a preservative. So critical were these two requirements, that a community's Abattoir soon became its Temple, and the ceremony of ritual sacrifice to be revered and protected, not only as a powerful business, but also as a central social theme. The limited Availability of salt prior to the Industrial Revolution caused religious monopolism, dictatorships and war, and led to the borders,
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