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Christien Meindertsma PIG 05049 Paperback – January 1, 2008

by Christien Meindertsma (Author)

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Back in print ( 4th Edition) In a complex and globalized world it has become increasingly difficult to trace the lines that link raw materials with producers, products and consumers. Designer Christien Meindertsma has published an intelligent project that attempts to chart this phenomena. An extensive collection of photographic images has been assembled that document the mind-boggling array of various products that different parts of an anonymous pig called 05049 could support. A visual essay without moral undertones, this complete image of what the pig means to mankind provides a timely serving of food for thought.

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Product Details

Paperback: 196 pages
Publisher: Flocks; Second edition (January 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9081241311
ISBN-13: 978-9081241311
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.6 x 7.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,100 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #78 in Books > Business & Money > Industries > Restaurant & Food
- #250 in Books > Business & Money > Industries > Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
- #1056 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Cooking Education & Reference

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A book for all animal rights activists to read and digest, while they sit sipping wine filtered through pig blood

By David Morehouse, Ph.D. on April 25, 2015

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Powerful well written book.

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By A. Guzman Torres on February 17, 2013

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nunca imagine que un puerco produjera tal cantidad de productos para el uso y consumo del humano, una recopilación bastante profunda e interesante.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

a highly interesting book

By Beckmueller on September 24, 2010

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... and an art project both useful (i.e. objectively informative) and inspriring.
Some aspects:

- apart from a short foreword and author's "explanation" at the end, the book contains 185 double pages. On each right page, you will find a picture of the end product made from pig #05049. The corresponding page on the left carries a very short written description of the final pig product and its use for human consumption or other consumptive/industrial uses. Some pictures extend over both right and left pages. Each right page shows the accumulated weight of the pig's parts shown so far in grams, eventually adding up to the 103,700 grams which pig #05049 weighed at the time of its slaughter. The book also contains an index for quick reference, plus a genealogical map of the product categories, and a map showing the products' places of origin in the pig's body. IMHO, the written explanations should have digged a lot deeper, carrying more information about the respective products and involved industries. The book is less of a "read" than rather of a "look".

- the author takes a highly commendable neutral, factual stance, herself advocating neither vegetarianism nor the meat industry. It's ultimately sober, leaving it to the consumers of this piece of art to make up their own hearts and minds about the subject. No lecturing, no preaching, no patronizing, no advertizing. The impression left by the book and its subject matter is 100% up to the reader and his/her individual value preferences. In that sense, the book depicts reality in a way which reflects the individual beholder, like a true piece of art. I got both hungry and quite grateful towards pig 05049 (and its millions of sisters) for contributing so much to my life in comfort.Read more ›

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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful

A dictionary of death

By Kristin Hope on January 28, 2011

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This book is important. It's really, really important. We want to live more compassionate lives? Forget about eating animals, if we want to stop harming them, we need to live without some wonderful things, like certain forms of renewable energy, without paintings, without photographs. Beautiful things, inherent to our experience as humans, only exist because of the slaughter of beautiful animals, inherent to our experience as humans. I purchased this book because I wanted a record, I wanted tangible proof, of just how far the human mind can reduce this planet and all life on it to things, for both the sake of arrogance and convenience, and for the sake of art, which PIG 05049 surely is. Happy existing, humans. Happy existing.

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Great Book

Got it for my girlfriend and she loves it! It is very very interesting the things you will read in the book.

Published on January 8, 2013 by Jonathan Schultz

highly interesting & unusual book

PIG 05049 was a fun book to browse through --- it's not really a book for cover-to-cover reading. it's fascinating to see where poor pig 05049 ended up and at times quite... Read more

Published on September 17, 2010 by Dr. Dirk Husemann

Brilliant and Elegant

This book proves that a picture is worth a thousand words. You can read every book about the modern food industry, but it is this photo essay that most brilliantly and elegantly... Read more

Published on March 23, 2010 by A. R. Schwid

Inspiring

Actually I haven't read this book, and from visiting the blog mentioning about this book, I kind of feel inspired. Read more

Published on October 24, 2009 by Huang-kai Chen

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