The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs cover art

The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs

Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs

By: Joel Salatin
Narrated by: Joel Salatin
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

From Christian libertarian farmer Joel Salatin, a clarion call to listeners to honor the animals and the land and to produce food based on spiritual principles.

Joel Salatin is perhaps the nation's best known farmer, whose environmentally friendly, sustainable Polyface Farms has been featured in Food, Inc. and Time magazine. Now, in his first audiobook written for a faith audience, Salatin offers a deeply personal argument for earth stewardship and calls for fellow Christians to join him in looking to the Bible for a foodscape in line with spiritual truth. Salatin urges Christians to rethink America's allegiance to cheap corporate food that destroys creation in its production, impoverishes third world countries, and supports oligarchical interests. He wonders why Christians ignore and even revel in unhealthy eating habits and factory farming that runs counter to God's design. With scripture and biblical stories, Salatin presents an alternative and shows listeners that in appreciating the pigness of pigs, we celebrate the glory of God.

©2016 Joel Salatin (P)2016 Hachette Audio Christian Living Christianity

Listeners also enjoyed...

 You Can Farm cover art
Folks, This Ain't Normal cover art
Genesis cover art
Dangerous Jesus cover art
Forgotten God cover art
Radical cover art
The Word of Promise Audio Bible—New King James Version, NKJV: Complete Bible cover art
Poverty, Riches, and Wealth cover art
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again cover art
The Pursuit of God cover art
Pastrix cover art
Own the Moment cover art
Humble Roots cover art
Jesus > Religion cover art
Church of Cowards cover art
Letters to the Church cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Have read several other Joel books, didn't realise that this was specifically about christianity and faith in relation to farming. Still enjoyed it because he's awesome, does cover topics I was expecting of the book (catering to animals inbuilt natures), and gave me interesting perspectives about the philosophy of farming and religion.

I'm not a practicing Christian but enjoyed it

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book stitches together all the loves of my life: care for animals, living harmoniously with the land, air, and waters, spiritual integrity, personal responsibility, and care for the miraculous body God has made me. It has taken me over 40years to wade through the hypocrisies, lies, and cruelty of the industrial food, health, and church systems to allow the soft beating heart in the centre of my chest to meet and love Jesus and yearn only to obey him. This world is no joke but there is a way to live in it and become fit for God's purpose; to honour the humaness of your humanity.

Thank you Joel

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Completely changed my view of food and my outlook on the world.
Please please read it listen to this book if you can.

Wow

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
As a Christian, in a very similar type of church to Joel, and therefore the target audience of this book, I found it largely unconvincing.
I think Joel tried to hard to justify things from the Bible that just weren't there. This is known as eisogesis; reading ones own meaning into the bible rather than trying to extract the intended meaning, called exogesis.

The parts of the book that I found the most convincing were the parts that overlapped with "Folks this Ain't normal".

So as a Christian, just go read that book.

Rather read "Folks this Ain't normal"

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.