Considering the pig, a single-minded bestiary.
Considerations of humanity and hogritude, because an insufficiency of pigs is one of the great faults of all that the gods have made manifest to man.
This site received a singular honor a few days ago. A work of art was created with the enchantress, Circe, and Porkopolis.org as the inspiration. The artist, Red Queen’s Elf, was included in the Porkopolis Art Museum’s recent exhibition, The Courtiers of Circe, with her work, Circe’s Fandango. After being notified of her inclusion in … Read more
A new exhibition of art featuring Circe and pigs has opened in the Porkopolis.org Art Museum and a selection of pig themed poetry also featuring Circe has been added to the Best Loved Pig Poetry section Of the Ziffel Memorial Library.
A review of major happenings at Porkopolis.org for March 2011: blog posts on the Lords of Lard, the Reprint Series opens and a major theme upgrade is rolled out.
By the later half of the nineteenth century in the Mid-western United States, huge meatpacking houses had developed a vast infrastructure in Kansas City, Milwaukee, Cincinnati and Chicago. These houses were the creation of the revolutionary Founding Fathers of the modern U.S. meatpacking industry.
