Lesser Beasts

In addition to acorns and grains, pigs happily devour that which most disgusts us – rotting garbage, feces, carrion, even human corpses. Of all the animals commonly eaten by humans, the pig is the only one that will return the favor.

Now in all honesty, how could you not want to read a book in which such a pair of sentences is found?

I certainly would, and as a copy of Mark Essig‘s Lesser Beasts; A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig recently arrived from Basic Books, I plan to do so in the very near future.