The Last Pig: Ending the Pork Peril

<p>This book is an insightful and humane discussion of a tremendous crisis currently taking place in real time due to the slaughter of around 1.5 billion pigs each year. Apart from a humongous loss of animal life the scale of the catastrophe is so enormous that it&rsquo;s hard to imagine any ecosystem food chain or everyday products spared of its imprint whether through pathogens residues contamination or emissions. <i>The Last Pig</i> is a bold call to phase out industrial swine production and the global pork trade. Written as a compact and widely accessible monograph this work speaks first and foremost to consumers then the policy makers and the industry leaders. Guided by both science and conscience it places today&rsquo;s pork industry in the wider context of antibiotic resistance emerging infections environmental pollution recurring viral pandemics emissions and cancer risks. To imagine &lsquo;the last pig&rsquo; therefore is to imagine the end of a deeply exploitative era and the start of something better one where meats no longer drive disease hunger and environmental decay. <i>The Last Pig</i> does not argue for the end of food - it argues for the beginning of healing. It is a call to douse the engines of suffering to reclaim the moral intelligence that modernity has traded for appetite. A turning point where humanity finally steps beyond the machinery of pork towards a cleaner and kinder form of existence.&nbsp;</p>