Bild 1 von 1

Standardbild

Communist Pigs - 9780295747309 - Bild 1 von 1

Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall by Thomas Fleischman (Hardcover, 2020)

BOOKS etc. (537942)

99,5% positive Bewertungen

Preis:

£31,24

(inkl. MwSt.)

Ca.EUR 36,06

+ £10,13 Versand

Lieferung ca. Fr, 25. Jul - Mi, 30. Jul

Rücknahme:

60 Tage Rückgabe. Käufer zahlt Rückversand. Wenn Sie ein eBay-Versandetikett verwenden, werden die Kosten dafür von Ihrer Rückerstattung abgezogen.

Artikelzustand:

Neu

ISBN-13: 9780295747309, 978-0295747309. The pig played a key role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. Communist Pigs An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall.

Sammeln Sie 36 Punkte | Mehr erfahrenzu eBay Plus-Punkten - wird in neuem Fenster oder Tab geöffnet

Über dieses Produkt

Product Information

The pig played a fundamental role in the German Democratic Republic's attempts to create and sustain a modern, industrial food system built on communist principles. By the mid-1980s, East Germany produced more pork per capita than West Germany and the UK, while also suffering myriad unintended consequences of this centrally planned practice: manure pollution, animal disease, and rolling food shortages. The pig is an incredibly adaptive animal, and historian Thomas Fleischman uncovers three types of pig that played roles in this history: the industrial pig, remade to suit the conditions of factory farming; the wild boar, whose overpopulation was a side effect of agricultural development rather than a conservation success story; and the garden pig, reflective of the regime's growing acceptance of private, small-scale farming within the planned economy. Fleischman chronicles East Germany's journey from family farms to factory farms, explaining how communist principles shaped the adoption of industrial agriculture practices. More broadly, Fleischman argues that agriculture under communism came to reflect standard practices of capitalist agriculture, and that the pork industry provides a clear illustration of this convergence. His analysis sheds light on the causes of the country's environmental and political collapse in 1989 and offers a warning about the high cost of cheap food in the present and future.