Livestock/deadstock : working with farm animals from birth to slaughter
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Livestock/deadstock : working with farm animals from birth to slaughter
(Animals, culture, and society / edited by Clinton R. Sanders and Arnold Arluke)
Temple University Press, 2010
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University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo図
: hardcover644:W735010674736
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
by "Nielsen BookData"