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... especially on the way that rivers have often been forgotten over time. Amahia Mallea s book makes an excellent contribution to this emerging scholarship, while also restoring the Missouri River to historical memory. Charles Closmann University of North Florida Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power...

...Catarina Passidomo Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork . By Brad Weiss . Durham : Duke University Press , 2016 . 312 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6157-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 448 Agricultural History critical for the trek s...

... way not only to produce pork, but also grease, a garbage by-product sold to soap makers. The growth of Secaucus’ swine farms began after nuisance trades like piggeries and bone-boiling plants were exiled from Manhattan in the mid-nineteenth century. By the 1890s a German-dominated swill trade...

...Katie Rawson Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama . Edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach . Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press , 2015 . 295 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-55728-679-6 . © 2018 Agricultural...

... exorbitantpricesthroughtheblackmarketL. ivestock farmersm, ade the most of this situationby increasingproductionof younganimals(calves and lambs),themass slaughterofwhichimpacted negativelyon thedevelopmentofherdsand flocks.5 In ruralareas,households kept up theirtraditionalconsumptionof pork and yard-rearedpoultry.The restrictionson...

...JENNY BARKER DEVINE Abstract Over the course of twenty-eight years, between 1964 and 1991, members of the Iowa Porkettes, the women’s auxiliary to the Iowa Pork Producer’s Association (IPPA), promoted pork products in order to assert their roles as agricultural producers. For the members...

.... There was an increase in pork whereas other animal products were unchanged or reduced, especially the total production of milk. At the same time, the Swedish population increased, which meant a decline in total output per capita. This was, however, no problem as Sweden was already self-sufficient in food...

... and crime to pen pigs and dispossess poor immigrant “swill women” of a means of reproduction. In the early twentieth century, officials championed pigs as living machines that turned garbage into pork, as long as they were spatially separated from the city and managed by professionalized men. Following pigs...

... Warrick and Pat Stith, "The Power of Pork," Raleigh News and Observer , 19 March1995, 1 (reprint from 19 February 1995 ) North Carolina Agribusiness Council, "North Carolina Agribusiness: Stewards of the Environment," n.d., Raleigh, 1 2 Alfred Crosby , Ecological Imperialism...

...Figure 3. US beef, pork, and chicken exports from 1960 to 2022. Source: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Product, Supply, and Distribution online database, https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/ . ...

... Society 2024 Workers in a modern pork processing plant's gestation division cannot make eye contact with pregnant sows and absolutely should never accidently brush against them. Human eye contact and touch risks upsetting the animals and kicking off a chain reaction that results in a complete loss...

... an excellent contribution to this emerging scholarship, while also restoring the Missouri River to historical memory. Charles Closmann University of North Florida Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America. By J. L. Anderson. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2018. 300 pp., $34.99, paperback...

..., founded in the mid-sixties, represented a more specialized form of organization and one not premised on geographic proximity or women s roles within the home. Initially an auxiliary of the Iowa Pork Pro- 156 2015 Book Reviews ducers Association (IPPA), the Porkettes incorporated in 1976 as a non-profit...

...-4696-0882-2. This excellent book opens with a list of the favorite dishes of puerto rican politicians and artists as reported by a newspaper in 1999, including corned 452 2015 Book Reviews beef with plantains, root vegetables and salted cod, and rice and beans with pork chops. The responses constitute...

... created and modified by those relations. The section on swineherds in particular gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the economic and social status of those closest to pigs. She also shows how pork consumption was a Roman tradition, which had both ideological and practical implications...

... the lives of pigs for the worse (78). Mizelle recounts the familiar, well-documented, and accurate indictment of modern production, including environmental degradation, poor pork quality, labor abuses, and stress on the pigs. But by highlighting the contrast between pre-industrial household pig production...

... quote by John Berger about the existential dualism experienced by humans who share their lives with animals that they eat. Berger's example of such dualism is when a “peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant . . . is that the two statements are connected...

.... in eighteen short chapters the book looks at a range of subjects from pig physiology to mythology to the national Pork Board s other white meat campaign. it goes straight to the facts without much of the fluff or gratuitous personal observations that fill many popular histories. The book also remains very...

..., and consumption (stewing, boiling, curing, frying, salting, etc The first chapter concludes with one of the better discussions of the rise ofmeat within American diets. The next four chapters trace the early histories of beef, pork, hot dogs, and chicken. For beef and pork, the focus is on the period between...