Almost like us. The whole truth about pigs

Life path of piglets from birth to industrial cattle -beam
Pigs - animals with which we have been living sideways for 11,000 years
At birth, the piglet weighs 3 times less than a baby. After 16 weeks, the baby weighs about 7 kg, the piglet at the same time exceeds 70 kg.
Winston Churchill once said: “I like pigs. Dogs look at us from the bottom up, cats - from top to bottom, but pigs look at us like equal. However, the relations of people and pigs are not so simple. A pig for us is a living embodiment of all dirty, vile, shameful and sinful. She deftly was removed from our field of view, or rather locked away from human eyes. The life of a pig on a large farm lasts only six months. Unlike cows, in her whole life she has never been destined to breathe fresh air, but there is no case for anyone. At the same time, a pig is an indispensable model of the human body in medical science and an animal whose meat in the past half a century we eat most often. Christoffer Endresen traced the life path of piglets from birth to an industrial cattle -beam and the facts collected by him in a fascinating story about gastronomic addiction and disgust, about food and moral choice. His book re -raises the question that people ask for centuries: where is the line that separates us from animals?

Quotes
"I agreed with the arguments of animal defenders. From a moral and philosophical point of view, they are impeccable, as it seemed to me, but I evaluate them as a person who has nothing to do with livestock. Why should I eat animal meat, which may have suffered for life? You can not kill him.
"In China, the largest pig farms are multi -storey. They contain up to 30,000 sowing, which in a year give approximately 850,000 piglets. With regard to animals that are considered home today, the small number is most surprised. One way or another, for a long time, a man tamed almost all major mammals, but as a result, completely a few were domesticated. "