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title: "Pig (Animal) Paperback – October 15, 2011"
brand: "brett mizelle"
price: "6227 kr"
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# Pig (Animal) Paperback – October 15, 2011

**Brand:** brett mizelle
**Price:** 6227 kr
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- **What is this?** Pig (Animal) Paperback – October 15, 2011 by brett mizelle
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## Customer Reviews

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    A Tail Like No Other
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2013*

About the time when Brett Mizelle relates that the actor George Clonney once declared "his eighteen-year relationship with his pig Max was the longest relationship he ever had," the reader begins to realize there is much more to a pig than a than curly tail.  And by the time the entire volume has been read, the pig has emerged in history, literature, and the eating of food as an incredible story that both illuminates the mind and saddens the heart. As part of the fascinating Animal Series edited by Jonathan Burt and published by Reaktion Books, PIG docments the history of the animal from deep prehistoric ancestors to the modern world of the assembly-line production of pork products.  Along the way, and particularly in Chapters 6 and 7, the author shows how "pigs have shaped human language and culture, including literature and art that, at its best, urges us to think about the lives of pigs."  That well-honed phrasing echoes the words of E.B. White who, in the essay "The Death of the Pig" (1948), tells the story of a pig he raised to put meat on his family's table but who died before that could happen.  "The loss we felt," wrote White, "was not the loss of ham but the loss of a pig.  He had evidentally become precious to me, not that he represented a distant nourishment in a hungry time, but that he had suffered in a suffering world."  The essay appears to have influenced White in his drafting of CHARLOTTE'S WEB, which appeared four years later.  Brett Mizelle feels the same way, in my estimate, and this book is a testimony to his own intellectual and heart-felt commitment to making the history of animals central in the broader human drama that continues to unfold around us.  For him, the ways humans relate to animals reveals how humans treat each other, sometimes with love and grace, other times brutally and cruelly. Balanced and thoughtful, PIG puts all this in perspective.  A terrific read.

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    Is this guy a vegetarian?
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2014*

Mizelle offers an interesting look at pigs through literature and culture. I appreciated the scholarship. However, he so frequently comments on how intelligent pigs are and why we probably shouldn't be killing and eating them (especially given how much they taste like human flesh -- which must mean we have a lot in common) that I got the feeling that he loves pigs as anything except food. In his conclusion, he states (after talking about the slaughter of pigs for food) "In making this bloodshed possible, we have underestimated the pig, condemned this animal for its supposedly inferior form and talents." (One wonders if "this animal" means he's okay with killing other animals, or if he views all killing of animals for food as "bloodshed" -- a term normally reserved for killing humans.)The author does over-romanticize the pig on occasion. He also assures us that pigs are really clean, without acknowledging that pigs let out in a field will eat excrement and dead animals, and they're almost defined by wallowing in mud (because they have no sweat glands and need to do this to moderate body temperature).It's a fun book with some excellent information. I would not tell anyone to avoid reading it. However, I would advise readers to take into consideration the fact that the book is not as balanced as one might hope.

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    Pigs are delightful, in a well-designed graphic handbook
  

*by G***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2013*

This volume in a series that covers practically everything that moves, creeps, waddles, swims or flies, is handsomely produced, handbook-sized, and an interesting quick introduction to theprehistoric origins, domestication and spread of the pig, including its many different breeds in Europe, Asia and the Americas. I have no idea if the author is an expert, but the writing is crisp,it seems well-researched, and the illustrations are copious.

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