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Livestock: Animal Voices/Animal Worlds Series

Autor Erin McKenna Editat de Robert W. Mitchell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mar 2018

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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780820351919
ISBN-10: 0820351911
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 197 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: University of Georgia Press
Seria Animal Voices/Animal Worlds Series


Notă biografică

ERIN MCKENNA is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon.

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Most livestock in the United States 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.