I was concerned that The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs, by Lyall Watson, might potentially put me off my pork products, but it didn’t quite manage that. It did, however, come close. Watson describes several personal relationships with pigs–none of which happen to be your garden-variety meat hog, which is why I suspect I got away with my dietary sensibilities relatively intact. (I do, however, struggle with weaning myself from animal products produced by industrial agriculture.)