Alex Blanchette's Porkopolis offers a compelling ethnography of pig life and death as part of the industrial food system. Blanchette challenges readers to think about factory farms not only as spaces of domination but also also sites where intimacy and exploitation unfold in complicated ways. 

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• Rutherford, S., (2025), "Review of "Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm"", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.519)

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1. factory farms.
2. industrial pigs
3. labour studies

Original publication: Rutherford, Stephanie. "Review of "Porkopolis: American animality, standardized life, and the factory farm"." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 8, no. 3, 2021. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.519. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.