Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm
人类学家 Alex Blanchette 在美国最大的猪肉公司进行了两年多的田野调查，追踪一头猪从基因选育、人工授精、屠宰到被拆解为 1,100 种商品的全过程。 Anthropologist Alex Blanchette spent over two years conducting fieldwork inside one of America's largest pork corporations, tracing a pig's journey from genetic selection and artificial insemination to slaughter and its rendering into 1,100 post-death commodities.
Porkopolis (Duke UP, 2020) is an ethnography of industrialized pork production. Blanchette worked in slaughterhouses, corporate offices, artificial insemination barns, and bone-rendering facilities to reveal how the factory farm standardizes life itself — not just animal life, but the lives of workers and surrounding communities. The book challenges the boundary between human and animal by showing how both are shaped by the same industrial logic.