{"product_id":"9780393240245","title":"Pig Tales : An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat - Barry Estabrook","description":"\u003cp\u003eBarry Estabrook, author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eTomatoland\u003c\/em\u003e and a writer of \"great skill and compassion\" (Eric Schlosser), now explores the dark side of the American pork industry. Drawing on his personal experiences raising pigs as well as his sharp investigative instincts, Estabrook covers the range of the human-porcine experience. He embarks on nocturnal feral pig hunts in Texas. He visits farmers who raise animals in vast confinement barns for Smithfield and Tyson, two of the country's biggest pork producers. And he describes the threat of infectious disease and the possible contamination of our food supply. Through these stories shines Estabrook's abiding love for these remarkable creatures. Pigs are social, self-aware, and playful, not to mention smart enough to master the typical house dog commands of \"sit, stay, come\" twice as fast as your average pooch. With the cognitive abilities of at least three-year-olds, they can even learn to operate a modified computer. Unfortunately for the pigs, they're also delicious to eat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEstabrook shows how these creatures are all too often subjected to lives of suffering in confinement and squalor, sustained on a drug-laced diet just long enough to reach slaughter weight, then killed on mechanized disassembly lines. But it doesn't have to be this way. \u003cem\u003ePig Tales\u003c\/em\u003e presents a lively portrait of those farmers who are taking an alternative approach, like one Danish producer that has a far more eco-friendly and humane system of pork production, and new, small family farms with free-range heritage pigs raised on antibiotic-free diets. It is possible to raise pigs responsibly and respectfully in a way that is good for producers, consumers, and some of the top chefs in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative, witty, and deeply informed, \u003cem\u003ePig Tales\u003c\/em\u003e is bound to spark conversation at dinner tables across America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barry Estabrook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title \/ 08\/06\/2026 \/ Animal husbandry","offer_id":57107230196087,"sku":"9780393240245","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780393240245_dc08fae6-6b7f-402e-b4d6-283f17745d46.jpg?v=1780928322","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780393240245","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}