Lesser Beasts
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What’s it about?
A provocative history of the pig, revealing how this intelligent, reviled animal has shaped human civilization—and what our treatment of it says about us.
You’ll learn
- Why pigs were domesticated differently from other livestock
- How religious taboos reshaped entire economies
- The pig's role in industrializing food production
- What pig intelligence means for animal welfare