March 2011 – In and Out Like A Pig
A review of major happenings at Porkopolis.org for March 2011: blog posts on the Lords of Lard, the Reprint Series opens and a major theme upgrade is rolled out.
Culture
Discussion, examples and commentary on human and pig interaction in the areas of religion, economics and social organization, as well as politics history and music.
Lords of Lard, part 2
By the later half of the nineteenth century in the Mid-western United States, huge meatpacking houses had developed a vast infrastructure in Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Chicago. These houses were the creation of the revolutionary Founding Fathers of the modern U.S. meatpacking industry.
Lords of Lard, part 1
An overview of N.K. Fairbank & Co.’s pig-themed trade card advertising in the late 19th century U.S. The Porkopolis Art Museum recently added some examples of late nineteenth century advertising trade cards to its collection. These cards, advertising lard and featuring pigs, were created for the N.K. Fairbank Co. as advertisements for their household lard … Read more
By Force in the Guise of Husbandry
The precepts of agricultural pragmatism have always posed a clear contrast to others’ praise of the great intelligence of swine.
Pigs Parachute into Pimlico
We’ve always been English and we’ll always be English; and it’s precisely because we are English that we’re sticking up for our right to be Burgundians! Mrs. Pemberton (played by Betty Warren) in Passport to Pimlico We will perhaps forever debate the true aerodynamic potential of pigs; but here is a quite enjoyable 60-year-old example … Read more