TY  - BOOK
AU  - Essig,Mark
TI  - Lesser beasts: a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig 
SN  - 9780465052745 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - SF395 .E64 2015
U1  - 636.4 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Swine
KW  - History
KW  - Pork
N1  - 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
ER  -