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Christoffer Endresen – Almost Like Us: The Whole Truth About Pigs
What do we really know about the pig that ends up on our plate? Winston Churchill once remarked, "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals." Yet the relationship between humans and pigs is far from simple.
In Western culture, the pig embodies everything dirty, shameful, and sinful. We have hidden it from sight, locking it away from human eyes. On a large farm, a pig’s life lasts only six months. Unlike cows, it never breathes fresh air—yet few care. At the same time, the pig is an irreplaceable model for medical science and the animal whose meat we consume most often over the last half-century.
Christoffer Endresen follows the pig’s journey from birth to industrial slaughterhouse, weaving collected facts into a compelling narrative about gastronomic desire and revulsion, food and moral choice. This book reopens the age-old question: where is the line that separates us from animals?
