Pig Tales – An Omnivore`s Quest for Sustainable Meat - Softcover

Estabrook, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393352935 ISBN 13: 9780393352931

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

Synopsis

In Pig Tales, New York Times best-selling author of Tomatoland Barry Estabrook turns his attention to the dark side of the American pork industry. Drawing on personal experiences raising pigs as well as sharp investigative instincts, Estabrook covers the range of the human-porcine experience. He shows how these intelligent creatures are all too often subjected to lives of suffering in confinement and squalor, sustained on a drug-laced diet just long enough to reach slaughter weight. But Estabrook also reveals how it is possible to raise pigs responsibly and respectfully, benefiting producers and consumers--as well as some of the top chefs in America.

Provocative, witty, and deeply informed, Pig Tales is bound to spark conversation at dinner tables across America.

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Review:

A beautiful and clear-eyed examination of the world of pigs and pig farming. With his engaging prose and soulful, riveting stories, [Estabrook] illuminates the complexities of the pig industry and the desperate need for reform.--Alice Waters, Chez Panisse

Cogent, level-headed.

Estabrook turns his keen journalistic eye to pig production...[and] provides balance in the engaging tales of farmers and processors who are thoughtful and eminently human...[A] must-read.--Cathy Barrow, author of Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Practical Pantry

Masterfully blends storytelling with succinct explanations of policy and science...a must-read.--Jim Romanoff

Estabrook demonstrates his skill with words to tell compelling true stories...authoritative yet approachable.--Steve Weinberg

About the Author:

A three-time James Beard Award winner, Barry Estabrook is a former contributing editor at Gourmet magazine and the author of Pig Tales and Tomatoland. He blogs at politicsoftheplate.com and lives in Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393352935
• ISBN 13: 9780393352931
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336