Lesser beasts
Subtitle: a snout-to-tail history of the humble pig
By: Mark Essig
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780465052745
Subjects: Pork; Swine; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Keep it simple; title: Out of the wild; title: "The pig is impure"; title: "Of their flesh shall ye not eat"; title: "Monstrosities of luxury"; title: The forest pig; title: "Swine eat things clean and unclean"; title: "The husbandman's best scavenger"; title: "All the mountains swarmed with them"; title: ¿"A great unkindness for our swine"; title: "The benevolent tyranny of the pig"; title: "Twenty bushels of corn on four legs"; title: The republic of porkdom; title: "The swinish multitude"; title: A growing prejudice against pork; title: "The other white meat"; title: Vices; title: "Back to the start"; title: Epilogue: Virtuous carnivores.