An American Trilogy
Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
The Cape Fear River runs through Bladen County, North Carolina, population 33,000. On its western bank, in the town of Tar Heel, sits the largest slaughterhouse in the world. Deep below the slaughterhouse, one may find the arrowheads of Siouan-speaking peoples who roamed there for a millennium. Nearer the surface is evidence of slaves who labored there for a century. And now, the slaughterhouse kills the population of Bladen County, in hogs, every day.In this remarkable account, Wise traces the history of today's deadly harvest. From the colonies to the slave trade, from the artificial conception and unrecorded death of one single pig to the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7867-4539-5
- EAN: 9780786745395
- Produktnummer: 22913159
- Verlag: Hachette Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 322 KB
Über den Autor
Steven M. Wise, J.D., has practiced animal law for over twenty years and has taught at the Harvard, Vermont, and John Marshall law schools. He is President of the Center for the Expansion of Fundamental Rights, which he founded in 1995. The author of Rattling the Cage, praised by Cass Sunstein as an impassioned, fascinating, and in many ways startling book (New York Times Book Review), and Drawing the Line, which Nature called provocative and disturbing, he has been profiled nationally by such publications as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Time magazine.
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