Almost Like Us. The Whole Truth About Pigs

Winston Churchill once said: «I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs look at us as equals». However, the relationship between humans and pigs is not that simple. A pig for us is a living embodiment of all that is dirty, disgusting, shameful, and sinful. It has been cleverly removed from our sight, or rather locked away from human eyes.
The life of a pig on a large farm lasts only six months. Unlike cows, it is never destined to breathe fresh air throughout its life, but no one cares about that. At the same time, the pig is an irreplaceable model of the human body in medical science and the animal whose meat we have eaten the most in the last fifty years.
Kristoffer Andresen traced the life journey of piglets from birth to industrial slaughter and turned the facts he gathered into an engaging story about gastronomic preference and aversion, about food and moral choice. His book raises anew the question that people have been asking for centuries: where is the line that separates us from animals?