Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America

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But the primary argument outlined in the introduction is focused instead on how Americans changed the pig. But today, there are inequalities of wealth between the working poor and middle class, and the well-to-do and rich, that would have been anathema to the revolutionaries who founded Communist China. L. Anderson details the ways in which pigs disrupted native ecologies and agriculture and were sometimes the first line of European expansion. You’ll be brazenly comfortable with the lightly ribbed neck and tear-away tag, with the additional feature of making all the anti-money socialists around you cringe. Science remains carnivorous, yet claims, like an uneasy meat-eater, that it does not kill the animals itself.

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Throughout, he develops his central argument that transforming pigs into capitalist commodities has required transcending historical limits on their production and consumption, be they disease, seasonal availability of feed, distribution networks, or a host of other factors.In another system of social organization, a different arrangement of multispecies life could emerge, one not premised on easy devaluations based in economic utility, but on questions of ecological balance and justice. Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work.

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Food and agriculture historians in particular will find much of use, but American social, environmental, rural, urban, and Civil War historians will also enjoy the read.

Zhu duo fei duo liangchan gao 豬多肥多粮產高 [More pigs means more fertilizer and higher grain production]. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management.