GC Wk 9 Video: The Pig Commandments (72 min.)

The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BP184.9.D5 P54 2006 DVD)

NOTICE: The UMD disk for The Pig Commandments is damaged and does not circulate from the Library.
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(China)
(Malaysia)
(70 min?)

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Malaysia

controlled comparison—

Chinese : Buddhism : Food
in China and Malaysia

A comparative look . . .

controlled comparison—
Chinese : Buddhism : Food
in China and Malaysia

Last week we had a look at
a Taoist temple
and Buddhist Slow Food
and Locavorism
which has a thousand year history . . .

In Food for Body and Spirit we saw how food
holds a part of Chinese culture together . . .

This week, we'll see how food
tears apart a major segment of Chinese culture in Malaysia . . .

The Pig Commandments

Shaikh Hussain Ye Links to an external site. Malaysia

(China) (On-line Optional Resource)
(Malaysia) (On-line Optional Resource)
[food tears Chinese culture apart in Malaysia

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"It was hardly surprising that, for the Chinese, the words 'meat' and 'pork' became, and remain, synonymous."

-- concluding sentence to Chapter 2 "Changing the Face of the Earth," Reay Tannahill, Food in History (NY: Three Rivers Press, 1988)

Food Revolution #2: The Meaning of Eating
-- the discovery that food is more than sustenance

For a comprehensive review of pork avoidance and its historical and social importance see
Frederick J. Simoons, Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances form Prehistory to the Present, 2^nd Ed.
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1994).