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

How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilkie, Rhoda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Animals, culture, and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.