In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In <i>Porkopolis</i> Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of c
Factory Farming and Animal Liberation: The New Zealand Experience
โ Scribed by Michael Morris
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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<p>Alex Blanchette explores how the daily lives of a Midwestern town that is home to a massive pork complex were reorganized around the life and death cycles of pigs while using the factory farm as a way to detail the state of contemporary American industrial capitalism.</p>
149 pages ; 24 cm
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