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Livestock : food, fiber, and friends / Erin McKenna.
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McKenna, Erin, author.
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Series:
Animals voices, animal worlds.
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x, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Respectful relationships: a pragmatist ecofeminist take on living with livestock -- Fish and pragmatist philosophy: developing a Deweyan ethic -- Beef cattle: animal welfare and Leopold's land ethic -- In mixed company: deep ecology, meat consumption, and conservation -- Ruminating with ruminants: rodeos, rights, and respectful use -- Sheep and goats: an ecofeminist critique of Wendell Berry and Barbara Kingsolver -- Dairies: animal welfare and Val Plumwood -- Pork production: pigs and pragmatism -- Poultry production: chickens, "chicks," and Carol Adams -- Better options moving forward: examining slaughter and limiting consumption.
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"Most livestock in America currently live in cramped and unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being transported and killed under stressful conditions. In Livestock, Erin McKenna allows us to see this situation and presents alternatives. She interweaves stories from visits to farms, interviews with producers and activists, and other rich material about the current condition of livestock. In addition, she mixes her account with pragmatist and ecofeminist theorizing about animals, drawing in particular on John Dewey's account of evolutionary history, and provides substantial historical background about individual species and about human-animal relations. This deeply informative text reveals that the animals we commonly see as livestock have rich evolutionary histories, species-specific behaviors, breed tendencies, and individual variation, just as those we respect in companion animals such as dogs, cats, and horses. To restore a similar level of respect for livestock, McKenna examines ways we can balance the needs of our livestock animals with the environmental and social impacts of raising them, and she investigates new possibilities for human ways of being in relationships with animals. This book thus offers us a picture of healthier, more respectful relationships with livestock."
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