Porkopolis

Porkopolis
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9781478012047
ISBN-13 : 1478012048
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Book Synopsis Porkopolis by : Alex Blanchette

Download or read book Porkopolis written by Alex Blanchette and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Porkopolis Alex Blanchette explores how this rural community has been reorganized around the life and death cycles of corporate pigs. Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Blanchette immerses readers into the workplaces that underlie modern meat, from slaughterhouses and corporate offices to artificial insemination barns and bone-rendering facilities. He outlines the deep human-hog relationships and intimacies that emerge through intensified industrialization, showing how even the most mundane human action, such as a wayward touch, could have serious physical consequences for animals. Corporations' pursuit of a perfectly uniform, standardized pig—one that can yield materials for over 1000 products—creates social and environmental instabilities that transform human lives and livelihoods. Throughout Porkopolis, which includes dozens of images by award-winning photographer Sean Sprague, Blanchette uses factory farming to rethink the fraught state of industrial capitalism in the United States today.


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