Lesser beasts : a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig / Mark Essig.
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2015Description: viii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780465052745 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 636.4 23
- SF395 .E64 2015
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Includes index.
Keep it simple -- Out of the wild -- "The pig is impure" -- "Of their flesh shall ye not eat" -- "Monstrosities of luxury" -- The forest pig -- "Swine eat things clean and unclean" -- "The husbandman's best scavenger" -- "All the mountains swarmed with them" -- ¿"A great unkindness for our swine" -- "The benevolent tyranny of the pig" -- "Twenty bushels of corn on four legs" -- The republic of porkdom -- "The swinish multitude" -- A growing prejudice against pork -- "The other white meat" -- Vices -- "Back to the start" -- Epilogue: Virtuous carnivores.
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