Lookinâ for some down-home cookinâ? A case study of household pork production in the Czech Republic

Zbynek Ulcak

Lookinâ for some down-home cookinâ? A case study of household pork production in the Czech Republic

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Zbynek Ulcak

Zbynek Ulcak Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Department of Environmental Studies, Jostova 10, CZ- 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic, ulcak@fss.muni.cz

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086865758_050

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Traditional agricultural practices are often seen as friendly to the landscape and natural environment, and the lifestyle associated with farming often serves as romantic example of rural idyll (Berry 1997, 2002, Henderson, Van En 1999, Charles 2003). Is this true, or is this view just another instance of the romanticisation of the countryside and rural landscapes, as described by David Pepper (1996)? This paper describes the roots of the tradition of small-scale home pork production in the Czech Republic, and analyses the meaning of the tradition as it is practised today. Special attention is given to the presentation of the tradition in the media and visual arts, namely in the work of Josef Lada, a Czech painter from the first half on 20^th century who in his work combined an idyllic view of Czech village life with a slight accent of parody. Today the tradition exists often simply in the form of a âpig roastâ â a social event involving the slaughter, preparation and cooking of a pig purchased from large commercial breeders. This results in an interesting contradiction, because âhomemade foodâ generally has an ideation value of high quality reaching the formal standards for organic farming, and is very often associated with a high standard of animal welfare. The paper discusses the often-contradictory reality of the tradition as it is practised today.

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Ethics and the politics of food

Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

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Lookinâ for some down-home cookinâ? A case study of household pork production in the Czech Republic