Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing
…s recommendation but it’s not hard to tease out implicit arguments in favor: pigs eat just about anything, convert plant energy to animal comestibility with great efficiency, breed easily and rapidly, and require relatively little management. Raised the right way, they offer enormous benefits to small-scale farms as biological systems. On one level, then, Pollan constructs human omnivory as an ideal; being willing to eat pig or any species, if eth…
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