Econ Book Review/ Project/ Discussion Post Number 3

---Originally published by Brittney at ECON 260 Comp Econ Systems – Spring 2017 – Brittney Baley

The second half of the book is titled “Life as a Protein Product”.  This section was very long from chapters 4-12, Pgs. 85 to 231. I am only going to highlight some of the more relevant chapters. The section as a whole was about describing how the pigs live on industrial pig farms where they are […]

Econ Book Review/ Project/ Discussion Post Number 2

---Originally published by Brittney at ECON 260 Comp Econ Systems – Spring 2017 – Brittney Baley

The first section of the book Pig Tales: An Omnivore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat, “The Nature of the Beast” goes into depth about the mental capacity of pigs, the effect of wild boars in their non native land, and why humans have domesticated pigs. All this coming to the conclusion that we, us humans, have broken an […]