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Livestock/deadstock : working with farm animals from birth to slaughter

Rhoda M. Wilkie

(Animals, culture, and society / edited by Clinton R. Sanders and Arnold Arluke)

Temple University Press, 2010

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  1. Food Animals: More Than a "Walking Larder"?  2. Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human—Livestock Relations  3. Women and livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production  4. "Price Discovery": Marketing and Valuing Livestock  5. "The Good life": Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock  6. Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock  7. Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer—Livestock Relations  8. Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death  9. Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive Contexts  Notes  Glossary of Doric Terms  References  Index

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