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Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism

Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism

Saraiva, Tiago

Paperback

Series: Inside Technology

Technology & EngineeringSports GeneralGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0262536153
ISBN13: 9780262536158
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Aug 28 2018
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.

In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived on national produce. Food independence was an early goal of fascism; indeed, as Tiago Saraiva writes in Fascist Pigs, fascists were obsessed with projects to feed the national body from the national soil. Saraiva shows how such technoscientific organisms as specially bred wheat and pigs became important elements in the institutionalization and expansion of fascist regimes. The pigs, the potatoes, and the wheat embodied fascism. In Nazi Germany, only plants and animals conforming to the new national standards would be allowed to reproduce. Pigs that didn't efficiently convert German-grown potatoes into pork and lard were eliminated.

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