Sir Winston Churchill once famously remarked “Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.” At least so said Sir Anthony Montague Browne, Sir Winston’s private secretary. And for my part, I very much hope he did – […]
It was with no small amount of wholly unintentional irony that I began reading Mark Essig’s Lesser Beasts; A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig while eating a ham sandwich. Such is the ubiquity of pigs. Yet for all the many ways the lives of modern humans have and to this day continue to intersect […]
Mr. Estabrook focuses this inquiry into pigs on their place in our modern world with particular emphasis on how they are now raised and processed into food, and contrasts that with ways that might be better for both the pigs as well as those who eat them.
The American philosopher Henry David Thoreau famously said “beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” I have somewhat modified this bit of advice to better suit (sorry…) my own life: “beware of all enterprises that do not require new books.”