Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20190124:07:39:00
Thirty kilograms each per year. gradually people discovered an animal that was particularly well suited to domestication pigs were happy to eat leftovers and acorns in the woods and when needed they could be caught and slaughtered by the early middle ages meat consumption in europe rose dramatically. at the end of the tenth century the population expanded and agriculture along with it. on average meat consumption hovered around forty kilos per capita per year in the high middle ages the majority of that was eaten by the affluent. and about a third of the population perished. suddenly there was...