Porkopolis
Porkopolis In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. Drawing on over…
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Porkopolis
In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses readers into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities. In Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs.
Corporations' pursuit of a perfectly uniform, standardized pig-one that can yield materials for over 1000 He outlines the deep human-hog relationships and intimacies that emerge through intensified industrialization, showing how even the most mundane human action, such as a wayward touch, could have serious physical consequences for animals.
Canon EG očnice 1889B001
