Winston Churchill once said: "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down, but pigs look at us as equals." However, the relationship between people and pigs is not at all so simple. The pig for us is the living embodiment of everything dirty, vile, shameful and sinful. She was deftly removed from our field of vision, or rather, locked away from human eyes. The life of a pig on a large farm lasts only six months. Unlike cows, she is never destined to breathe fresh air in her whole life, but no one cares about that. At the same time, the pig is an indispensable model of the human body in medical science and the animal whose meat we eat most often in the last half century. Kristoffer Endresen traced the life path of piglets from birth to industrial slaughterhouse and turned the facts he collected into a fascinating story about gastronomic addiction and aversion, about food and moral choice. His book re-poses the question that people have been asking for centuries: where is the line that separates us from animals?
