Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse

Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse
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Publisher : UPNE
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 1584656980
ISBN-13 : 9781584656982
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse by : Paula Young Lee

This title offers an interdisciplinary look at the rise of the slaughterhouse in 19th-century Europe and the Americas. Over the course of this period, the factory slaughterhouse replaced the hand slaughter of animals by individual butchers. A wholly modern invention, the municipal slaughterhouse was a political response to public concerns.

Animal City

Animal City
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780674919365
ISBN-13 : 067491936X
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Animal City by : Andrew A. Robichaud

American urbanites once lived alongside livestock and beasts of burden. But as cities grew, human-animal relationships changed. The city became a place for pets, not slaughterhouses or working animals. Andrew Robichaud traces the far-reaching consequences of this shift--for urban landscapes, animal- and child-welfare laws, and environmental justice.

Reading Slaughter

Reading Slaughter
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9783030989156
ISBN-13 : 3030989151
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading Slaughter by : Sune Borkfelt

Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond.

Thinking Italian Animals

Thinking Italian Animals
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9781137454775
ISBN-13 : 1137454776
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Thinking Italian Animals by : D. Amberson

This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world.

The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History

The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 673
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ISBN-10 : 9780190924164
ISBN-13 : 0190924160
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History by : Jeannie Whayne

Agricultural history has enjoyed a rebirth in recent years, in part because the agricultural enterprise promotes economic and cultural connections in an era that has become ever more globally focused, but also because of agriculture's potential to lead to conflicts over precious resources. The Oxford Handbook of Agricultural History reflects this rebirth and examines the wide-reaching implications of agricultural issues, featuring essays that touch on the green revolution, the development of the Atlantic slave plantation, the agricultural impact of the American Civil War, the rise of scientific and corporate agriculture, and modern exploitation of agricultural labor.

Sacred Rituals and Humane Death

Sacred Rituals and Humane Death
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 109
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ISBN-10 : 9781498541404
ISBN-13 : 1498541402
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Sacred Rituals and Humane Death by : Magfirah Dahlan

Sacred Rituals and Humane Death critically analyzes the civilizing nature of the underlying fundamental concept of “humaneness” in contemporary discourses around modern meat and animal ethics. As religious methods of animal slaughter, such as the halal method in Islam, as well as the practice of religious animal sacrifice, are sometimes categorized as barbaric in recent debates, the civilizing narrative of progress leads supposedly to more humane adaptation of methods and practices of animal curation and slaughter. This volume argues that the shift toward modern meat does not constitute a shift toward less pain and suffering as purported by supporters of contemporary methods, particularly mass agriculture. Rather, it is a shift in what is considered as acceptable versus unacceptable pain and suffering. In this work, the author analyzes the concealment and distancing that characterize modern meat production, uncovering the “acceptable” pain and suffering involved in these procedures heralded as ”progress” and advocating for a retrieval of earlier, tradition-bound practices rooted in religious, cultural, and ethical respect of animals and their important and sacred roles in sacrifice.

Humans, Animals, and the Craft of Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic Societies

Humans, Animals, and the Craft of Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic Societies
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781108575294
ISBN-13 : 1108575293
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Humans, Animals, and the Craft of Slaughter in Archaeo-Historic Societies by : Krish Seetah

In this book, Krish Seetah uses butchery as a point of departure for exploring the changing historical relationships between animal utility, symbolism, and meat consumption. Seetah brings together several bodies of literature - on meat, cut marks, craftspeople, and the role of craft in production - that have heretofore been considered in isolation from one another. Focusing on the activity inherent in butcher, he describes the history of knowledge that typifies the craft. He also provides anthropological and archaeological case studies which showcase examples of butchery practices in varied contexts that are seldom identified with zooarchaeological research. Situating the relationship between practice, practitioner, material and commodity, this imaginative study offers new insights into food production, consumption, and the craft of cuisine.

Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India

Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 143
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ISBN-10 : 9781000868272
ISBN-13 : 1000868273
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India by : Johan Fischer

Never before in human history have vegetarianism and a plant-based economy been so closely associated with sustainability and the promise of tackling climate change. Nowhere is this phenomenon more visible than in India, which is home to the largest number of vegetarians globally and where vegetarianism is intrinsic to Hinduism. India is often considered a global model for vegetarianism. However, in this book, which is the outcome of eight months of fieldwork conducted among vegetarian and non-vegetarian producers, traders, regulators and consumers, I show that the reality in India is quite different, with large sections of communities being meat-eaters. In 2011, vegetarian/veg/green and nonvegetarian/ non-veg/brown labels on all packaged foods/drinks were introduced in India. Paradoxically, this grand scheme was implemented at a time when meat and non-vegetarian food production, trade and consumption were booming. The overarching argument of the book is that a systematic study of the complex and changing relationship between vegetarian and non-vegetarian understandings and practices illuminates broader transformations and challenges that relate to markets, the state, religion, politics and identities in India and beyond. The book’s empirical focus is on the changing relationship between vegetarian/ non-vegetarian as understood, practised and contested in middle-class India, while remaining attentive to the vegetarian/non-vegetarian modernities that are at the forefront of global sustainability debates. Through the application of this approach, the book provides a novel theory of human values and markets in a global middle-class perspective.

The Commodification of Farm Animals

The Commodification of Farm Animals
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9783030858704
ISBN-13 : 3030858707
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Commodification of Farm Animals by : Sophie Riley

This book examines how the developments in veterinary science, philosophy, economics and law converged during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to entrench farm animals along a commodification pathway. It covers two neglected areas of study; the importance of international veterinary conferences to domestic regimes and the influence of early global treaties that dealt with animal health on domestic quarantine measures. The author concludes by arguing that society needs to reconsider its understanding and the place of the welfare paradigm in animal production systems. As it presently stands, this paradigm can be used to justify almost any self-serving reason to abrogate ethical principles. The topic of this book will appeal to a wide readership; not only scholars, students and educators but also people involved in animal production, interested parties and experts in the animal welfare and animal rights sector, as well as policy-makers and regulators, who will find this work informative and thought-provoking.