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Almost like us. The whole truth about pigs.

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Almost like us. The whole truth about pigs.
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Winston Churchill once said, "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs look at us as equals." However, the relationship between humans and pigs is far from simple. For us, the pig is the living embodiment of everything dirty, vile, shameful, and sinful. It has been cleverly removed from our sight, or rather, locked away from human eyes.

A pig's life on a large farm lasts only six months. Unlike cows, it never breathes fresh air, but no one cares. At the same time, the pig is an indispensable model for the human body in medical science and the animal whose meat we have eaten most often for the past half-century.

Christoffer Endresen traced the life of piglets from birth to the industrial slaughterhouse, distilling his findings into a captivating tale of gastronomic cravings and aversions, food, and moral choice. His book reopens a question that has fascinated people for centuries: where is the line drawn that separates us from animals?
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