Open AccessReview of "Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm"
Author(s) -
Stephanie Rutherford
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
canadian food studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2292-3071
DOI - 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.519
Subject(s) - factory (object oriented programming) , ethnography , sociology , history , anthropology , computer science , programming language
Alex Blanchette's Porkopolis offers a compelling ethnography of pig life and death as part of the industrial food system. Blanchette challenges readers to think about factory farms not only as spaces of domination but also also sites where intimacy and exploitation unfold in complicated ways.