Description
Featuring a range of innovative case studies, this book provides in-depth analysis of farm animal welfare and its implications for the food industry.
About the Author
Henry Buller is Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. Emma Roe is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Southampton, UK.
Reviews
Appropriate audiences for Food and Animal Welfare include anthropologists who study food or human-animal interactions; scholars interested in post-humanist approaches; anyone who wants to understand the nuts and bolts of what processes and practices deliver animal products to the table; graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. I think this book, in all or part should be required reading for students of food anthropology, economics, animal science, biology, and food systems ethics. * FoodAnthropology *
This is a much needed critical intervention into the politics and ethics of animal agriculture and issues of animal care. As Buller and Roe remind us, these are subjects that cannot be owned by any one field, not by veterinary scientists or ethicists. Questions about animal welfare are also deeply social, making this book all the more powerful by reminding us of our own interdependence with those nonhuman animals that feed us. * Michael S. Carolan, Colorado State University, USA *
What becomes manifest as body eats body? Interfacing animal and agro-food studies - mixing science, economics and ethics; tracing bodies, body-parts, feelings and foodstuffs - the authors centralise animal welfare as the hinge for answering this provocative question. Addressing complex, often contradictory events - caring and killing, raising and erasing, fattening and rendering - they close the distance between field and fork, conjuring new sensibilities with which to rethink the politics of livestock production and consumption. * Christopher Philo, University of Glasgow, UK *
Book Information
ISBN 9780857857071
Author Professor Henry Buller
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 405g