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Hog Ties

by Richard P. Horwitz

1998 312 pages eng

From Charlotte's Web to Porky Pig and Babe, Americans like pigs. In Hog Ties, Richard Horwitz looks at this phenomenon, its relation to American culture, and the way in which themes of life and death are played out in the care, feeding, slaughtering, and eating of pigs. Horwitz grew up in a rural Je…

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