A complacent hog
Complacent hog, woman or man – when the angels, fates or devils tap us on the shoulder, how and why do we choose to listen?
Farm and Trade
Discussion, examples and commentary on aspects of pig husbandry, swineherding and the pork industry.
A dead pig’s smile
Before that last smile , there is agony, whether in the yards of Chicago, the white towers of Smithfield or the family farm.
The gods watch all our planning
When they even bother, the gods’ orchestrations will trump the plans of both pigs and men; but at best we are usually just the soap operas that blunt their tedium.
Swineherds, grammar & social injustice
Here are photos from the second place winner in the Alexia Foundation’s 2010 student competition promoting photojournalism as an agent for change against social injustice.
“Swineherd: the salaried gypsy with a domestic mind” was submitted by Muhammad Murtada, a native of Bangladesh, and a third year photojournalism student at Pathshala, the South Asian Media Academy.
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.