'Lesser Beasts' explores our uneasy relationship with the humble pig - June 10, 2015
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Summary: Could the pig be the most misunderstood animal of all? Adore them, or abhor them. Hate them, or plate them. Writer Mark Essig brings home the bacon with his new history of our long and muddied relationship with pigs.