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.
Brief description: Henry Buller is Professor of (more than) Human Geography at the University of Exeter. He has written well over 100 books, articles and reports on social science approaches to animal welfare, animal geography, human-animal relations, rural development, food and environmental studies. He is currently undertaking research in the antimicrobial resistance and, in particular, diagnostic procedures in livestock farming systems with research projects in the UK, Tanzania and Thailand. He was a key member of the EU funded WelfareQuality(R) research project (2005-2010) and, more recently, the EU funded H2020 project 'Hennovation'. He was editor of the rural social science journal Sociologia Ruralis from 2002 to 2014 and has been an appointed member of the UK Farm Animal Welfare Council for a number of years and has chaired the DEFRA/FAWC 'Welfare at Killing Committee'.
Review Quotes:
"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