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Food and Animal Welfare (Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics)

Food and Animal Welfare (Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics)

by Emma Roe (Author), Henry Buller (Author)

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    Hardcover 2016

    $156.31
Synopsis

Drawing together the latest research and a range of case studies, Henry Buller and Emma Roe guide readers on a fascinating journey through animal welfare issues `from farm to fork'. Animal welfare offers a vital lens through which to explore the economies, culture and politics of food. This is the first text to provide a much-needed overview of this strongly debated area of the food industry. Buller and Roe explore how animal welfare is defined, advocated, assessed and implemented by farmers, veterinarians, distributors, and consumers. From the practicalities and limitations of establishing a basic standard of care for livestock, to the ethics of selling welfare as a product in the supermarket, this indispensable book offers empirical insights into a key aspect of the global food system: the lives, deaths, and consumption of animals which are at the core of the food chain. It is a must-read for students and scholars of animal welfare, agro-food studies and human-animal relations in disciplines such as geography, politics, anthropology, and sociology as well as animal behaviour, psychology and veterinary science.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 232
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 24 Mar 2016
ISBN 10: 0857855786
ISBN 13: 9780857855787
Book Overview: Featuring a range of innovative case studies, this book provides in-depth analysis of farm animal welfare and its implications for the food industry.

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
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.