Animal Industries : Nordic perspectives on the exploitation of animals since 1860 / Taina Syrjämaa, [and five others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Syrjämaa, Taina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 274 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, 2024.

Summary:

"This book examines an extremely topical phenomenon, the massive industrial exploitation of animals, from a previously neglected perspective. It explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment in the late nineteenth century to the present day. These countries are often considered to be progressive and advanced in animal protection, but consumption practices in this area are actually excessive in relation to planetary resources and are among the most unsustainable on a global scale. If we want to understand current problems, it is essential to be aware of long-term changes and continuities, as well as the diversity of animals that have been exploited. The purpose of this book is to explain these changes and provide new knowledge for scholars in human-animal studies, decisionmakers and the general public."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

1 Multispecies mobilities and human belief in progress

2 Exploring the roots of high milk consumption in Finland

3 Knowledge in the service of profit: Pig fattening performance testing in the first half of the twentieth century

4 Women who love chickens: Gender and interspecies care in Finnish small-scale egg farming guides

5 Counting down Baltic fish

6 Reassembling agro-human orders: Antibiotics in animal agriculture, 1940s-2000s

7 A conduit for value? More-than-human experiments with chicken metabolism and the Nordic diet

8 Coming to terms with fish farming and fish consciousness

9 Pernicious propaganda: The Norwegian Meat Information Office and its "politics of meat promotion"

10 Classifying Finnish fish

11 Happy cows? Unravelling contexts of Swedish farmed animals

12 Swedish agriculture and farmed animals in social media

13 Keeping dairy cattle: A matter of scale?.

Notes:

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