Lesser Beasts: A Snout-To-Tail History of the Humble Pig

by Mark Essig

Book Overview

Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend--yet their flesh is banned in many cultures, and the animals themselves are maligned as filthy, lazy brutes.

As historian Mark Essig reveals in Lesser Beasts, swine have such a bad...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465052746
• ISBN13: 9780465052745
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary