Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America

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George A. Hormel, a former Chicago slaughterhouse employee, took out a small loan to open his own meat production company in Austin, Minnesota in 1891. There he introduced the first mass market canned ham product, Hormel Flavor-Sealed Ham, and then the better-known Spam, which debuted in 1937 and helped feed American soldiers overseas. In 1942, George’s son Jay used the family fortune to convert old horse stables into a high-tech (for the time) space of experimentation in agricultural science and medicine. Jay’s newly formed Hormel Institute joined forces with the nearby Mayo Clinic and the National Heart Institute in 1949 to develop a “miniature swine” that could serve in biomedical research. Yet, of greater interest, and import, is that the China of the new Great Helmsman, Xi Jinping, a one-party Communist dictatorship, coexists with hundreds of Chinese billionaires. Jonathan Hoenig ( / ˈ h oʊ n ɪ ɡ/; born September 10, 1975) is an American, founding member of the Capitalist Pig hedge fund, and a regular contributor to and regular panelist on Fox News Channel's Cashin' In, Your World with Neil Cavuto, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld and WLS (AM) 890's morning show, Don Wade & Roma (now defunct). Among the earliest mentions of Porky still available online comes from 4chan's /pol/ board. [4] On June 4th, 2015, an Anonymous user posted a picture of Porky (shown below, left) and said, "Where did this picture come from? Are there really communists who post here? I thought all the SJWs hated 4chan." In the thread, one member mentions Porky by name (shown below, right). The anonymous user, "Actually Porky was originally drawed that way." soviet, mayakovsky, russia, /leftypol/, politics, bourgeois, labor, ussr, soviet union, art, agitprop, russian telegraph agency

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And it is only because Mother Jones is funded primarily by donations from readers that we can mount ambitious, yearlong— or more—investigations like these two stories that are making waves.Atwood, however, did not invent pigoons out of whole cloth. Instead, the dream of exchanging organs between species ( xeno – as compared with conventional allo- transplantation) has been vigorously pursued since the early 1990s. As transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl and colleagues opened their 1997 article, “The Future of Transplantation”: “Further real growth of transplantation will depend on the use of animal organs.” With limited donations but ever-escalating demand for organs, alternatives appeared necessary. But those dreams have stumbled on a dauntless procession of scientific obstacles, with graft rejection (when the body fights off a new organ as alien) and potentially zoonotic diseases (those that transfer between species) at the top of the list. Many in the field, and others who left for greener pastures, joke that “xenotransplantation is the future of transplantation and always will be.” Set up a tax-exempt foundation, fund it with billions of dollars, invite in liberals to sit on the board, and, at munificent salaries, to run it and distribute its income to liberal causes. The way to diminish leftist resentment at huge piles of private wealth is to give them a cut.

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A sweeping history of pigs in the United States from before the arrival of Europeans to today. In Anderson’s clear, brisk, and clever history, these animals appear as wild beasts roaming forests, domesticates in farm pens, commodities in railcars, corpses on slaughterhouse hooks, meat at the ends of butchers’ knives, consumer products in Walmart coolers, nourishment in human stomachs, and as transplanted hearts thumping away in human chests. It’s fun to read.” A little over a month later, October 31st, a Redditor posted the Porky meme to the /r/FULLCOMMUNISM subreddit. In the thread "Porky on 'helping our own' before helping refugees," they posted a two panel image macro. As of June 2017, the post received more than 1,200 points (99% upvoted). [6]

This could be the first time a corporation would be held criminally liable for forced labor in their own supply chains,” according to a retired special agent we talked to. For good reason, many question not only the technical feasibility of this quest, but also its ramifications. Xenotransplantation researchers have carried out numerous studies on whether pig organ recipients would feel “human” if they knew their heart was not, and/or whether their families would treat them any differently. This fear finds its reflection in fiction: In Yann Martel’s short story, “We Ate the Children Last,” pig heart xenografts transform their human recipients into violent, insatiably hungry monsters. Psychological consequences aside, engineering animals with genetically identical, “humanized” organs only to slaughter them later seems, at best, morally complex.

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In the vein of William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis,this is a meaty, accessible, and clear-eyed agricultural history." Yet comparable claims of similarity could be made—and were—for dogs, sheep, goats, horses, and a great many other species besides. Using pigs was partly a matter of personal or laboratory style; not so coincidentally, many institutions that adopted this style were located in or near major agricultural centers. And while “experimental” pigs were promised different futures than their table-bound kin, both would fall prey to the same developments in veterinary and agricultural knowledge. Initially a spinoff of industrial production, like fetal pigs, miniature swine generated new synergies between agriculture and basic science: laboratory studies produced improvements in pork production and vice versa. Anderson’s investigation is thorough, focusing on economic and social impacts, and, when appropriate, unflinching." A clear and accessible read, beautifully illustrated with paintings, maps, and photographs that demonstrate the prominence of the pig in America." This tripling of the wealth of the world’s billionaires and 30 percent increase in their number came during a year when America and the West endured the worst pandemic in a century and worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.In September 2014, Hoenig stirred up controversy over racial profiling in a Fox News commentary piece, stating that "We should have been profiling on September 12, 2001. Let's take a trip down memory lane here: the last war this country won, we put Japanese-Americans in internment camps. We dropped nuclear bombs on residential city centers. Yes, profiling would be at least a good start. It's not on skin color, however. It's on ideology. Muslim, Islamists, jihadist-that's a good start but only a start. We need to stop giving Qur'ans to Gitmo prisoners. We need to stop having Ramadan celebrations in the White House. We have to stop saying the enemy is not Islamic; they are. That's how you get started." [10] Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.

J. L. Anderson. Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in

W hile Big Pork pushed fetal pigs onto classroom tables, one specific pork product—Spam—was central to the next important development in porcine science: the experimental minipig. The connection should come as no surprise: where science and hogs meet, the question of edibility is never far off.On January 23rd, 2017, a /leftypol/ user posted four Porky memes and asked users to post "rare Porkies" (examples below). [8] Some of these examples include Porky guiding a racist with a sign that says "immigrants," Porky dressed as a member of ISIS and Porky as a Police office. Although Anderson discusses extensively in the latter half of the book how farmers industrialized and economized pork production and even changed the body shape of pigs to accommodate changing consumer tastes, he spends little time discussing the effects on the pigs themselves. Although breeding is mentioned frequently, the only mention of any particular breed in the entire book is about how heritage breeds have become more fashionable in modern nose-to-tail cuisine and sustainable agriculture (172-73), despite the fact that discussing the various breeds of pig throughout the book would have lent weight to later industrial changes and changing consumer tastes. He also skirts around the effects of industrialization on the hogs themselves - only in a photo caption does he mention accusations of cruelty in hog confinement operations (201). I’ve heard it said that every phase of American capitalism finds its reflection in zombies: if the stumbling undead in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead evinced the mindless consumerism of the Cold War years, the infected army chasing Brad Pitt in World War Z reveals fear of a contagious, out-of-control globalization, one that Henry A. Giroux has fittingly called “zombie capitalism.” Yet zombies appeared to exit the realm of fiction when word broke in April 2019 that scientists had reanimated pig brains in a small New Haven laboratory. What sort of capitalism births such strange creatures as these?