scholarly journals Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kopnina
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Habitat Destruction ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Multispecies Ethnography ◽  
Ecological Relationships ◽  
Medical Experimentation ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
Engaged Anthropology ◽  
Production Industry

Anthropologists have mediated between discriminated communities and outsiders, helping to influence public opinion through advocacy work. But can anthropological advocacy be applied to the case of violence against nonhumans? Ethical inquiries in anthropology also engage with the manifold ways through which human and nonhuman lives are entangled and emplaced within wider ecological relationships, converging in the so-called multispecies ethnography, but failing to account for exploitation. Reflecting on this omission, this article discusses the applicability of engaged anthropology to the range of issues from the use of nonhumans in medical experimentation and food production industry, to habitat destruction, and in broader contexts involving violence against nonhumans. Concluding that the existing forms of anthropological engagement are inadequate in dealing with the massive scale of nonhuman abuse, this article will suggest directions for a radical anthropology that engages with deep ecology, animal rights, animal welfare, and ecological justice.

scholarly journals Nonhuman Animal Rights, Alternative Food Systems, and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

PhaenEx ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey Lee Wrenn
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
Alternative Food ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Alternative Food Systems ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Alternative Systems ◽  
Nonhuman Animals

Alternative food systems (namely the humane product movement) have arisen to address societal concerns with the treatment of Nonhuman Animals in food production. This paper presents an abolitionist Nonhuman Animal rights approach (Francione, 1996) and critiques these alternative systems as problematic in regards to goals of considering the rights or welfare of Nonhuman Animals. It is proposed that the trend in social movement professionalization within the structure of a non-profit industrial complex will ultimately favor compromises like “humane” products over more radical abolitionist solutions to the detriment of Nonhuman Animals. This paper also discusses potential compromises for alternative food systems that acknowledge equal consideration for Nonhuman Animals, focusing on grassroots veganism as a necessary component for consistency and effectiveness.

scholarly journals The price of development: The importance of preserving local agricultural lands

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rachelle Foss
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Current System ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Crop Farming ◽  
Industrial Food Production ◽  
Small Producers ◽  
Production Industry

Regardless of the fact that we have long been warned of the negative impact of industrial farming, rural communities are being wiped out as local producers, like Riverbend Gardens, are put at risk in favour of urban expansion. The industrial food production industry is unsustainable, leading to increased energy consumption and food costs because of the gross use of energy to transport food hundreds kilometres from where it is produced. Toxic chemicals used to combat swarms of pests that are nurtured by acres of single crop farming have lead to the increase of these substances in our environment. The growing disconnection between ourselves and how our food is produced, fostered by diminishing farm communities, allows us to continue as we always have, until our current system collapses. This will have a deleterious effect on our health and our environment. Many of the answers to the problems we face in our food production industry lies in support for our small, local food producers. Located within Edmonton city limits, sustainable, family run, Riverbend Gardens, is at risk of being wiped out if government and consumers do not recognize the importance of small producers and their part in solving the food industry’s failures.

Two Perspectives on Ecological Art

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Maija Demitere ◽  
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Jan Georg Glöckner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ecological Art ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
The Mind

In the paper “Two perspectives on ecological art”, we will compare two perspectives on sustainability and the practicality of an ecological artwork. One perspective is from Latvian media artist Maija Demitere, researching slow media art, deep sustainability, and food production. Demitere uses micro-gardening prototypes as an instrument to inform the public on the problems of food production (local food, biodiversity, pesticides, herbicides, pollution caused by agriculture). Demitere uses gardening in combination with DIY (Do it Yourself) technologies to talk about slow living, ecology of the mind, and mindfulness. The second perspective is offered by Jan Glöckner. Glöckner is a German artist and researcher. His research interests are collaborations between fungi and Hominidae. Glöckner reaches out with diplomatic gestures towards fungi to re-localise humans within the larger domain of living entities. He is working on an ethical framework that draws from deep ecology and Tibetian Buddhism to ensure the rights of microorganisms and macroorganisms in artistic, industrial, and research setups. The first part of the paper will focus on recycling, waste management, waste produced by households, and the artists’ perspective on the problem. The second part will focus on a specific case of the exhibition “Life” by Olafur Eliasson at the Foundation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland. The second part will also look at the idea of “artistic greenwashing”. The last part of the article will attempt to conclude what can be considered an actual sustainable artwork and propose possible key points that describe a (deep) ecological artwork. The paper uses such methods as case studies, literature analysis, and autoethnography.

Your Daughter or Your Dog? A Feminist Assessment of the Animal Research Issue

Hypatia ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Slicer
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Animal Research ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Research Issue ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
Rights Theories

I bring several ecofeminist critiques of deep ecology to bear on mainstream animal rights theories, especially on the rights and utilitarian treatments of the animal research issue. Throughout, I show how animal rights issues are feminist issues and clarify the relationship between ecofeminism and animal rights.

scholarly journals First Report on the Finding of Listeria mnocytogenes ST121 Strain in a Dolphin Brain

Pathogens ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 802
Author(s):  
Yann Sévellec ◽  
Marina Torresi ◽  
Benjamin Félix ◽  
Féderica Palma ◽  
Gabriella Centorotola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Listeria Monocytogenes ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Polychlorinated Biphenyl ◽  
Foodborne Illness ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Related Strain ◽  
Genomic Features ◽  
First Time ◽  
Production Industry

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a ubiquitous bacterium that causes the foodborne illness, listeriosis. Clonal complexes (CC), such as CC121, are overrepresented in the food production industry, and are rarely reported in animals and the environment. Working within a European-wide project, we investigated the routes by which strains are transmitted from environments and animals to food and the food production environment (FPE). In this context, we report, for the first time, the occurrence of a ST121 (CC121) strain isolated from a dolphin brain. The genome was compared with the genomes of 376 CC121 strains. Genomic comparisons showed that 16 strains isolated from food were the closest to the dolphin strain. Like most of the food strains analyzed here, the dolphin strain included genomic features (transposon Tn6188, plasmid pLM6179), both described as being associated with the strain’s adaptation to the FPE. Like all 376 strains, the dolphin strain contained a truncated actA gene and inlA gene, both described as being associated with attenuated virulence. Despite this fact, the strain was able to cross blood-brain barrier in immunosuppressed dolphin exposed polychlorinated biphenyl and invaded by parasites. Our data suggest that the dolphin was infected by a food-related strain released into the Mediterranean Sea.

Iptek bagi Masyarakat Kelompok Petani Nanas dalam Pengelolaan dan Pengembangan Usaha di Desa Rimbo Panjang Kecamatan Tambang Kabupaten Kampar

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Apriza Apriza ◽  
Yenny Safitri ◽  
Neneng Fitria Ningsih
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Home Production ◽  
Medicine Use ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Production Industry

Indonesia is the fifth largest pineapple producing country in the world, but there are still many pineapple farmers in Indonesia do not know the benefits of pineapple processing that might produce various home productions and might help the family economy. Based on the field survey in Rimbo Panjang located in Kampar regency, Riau Province, it was obtained that some pineapple farmers do not know the overall benefits of pineapple and how to process the pineapple in order to be efficient and high sale value. The Farmers confirmed that the yields of pineapple farming was not adequate, they have to find the side job to fill their daily needs consequently. The further search on the benefits of pineapple is extremely large. It is not only can be processed as home production industry, but also can be used for public health. The aim of the IBM activities that had been carried out in Rimbo Panjang involved the group of pineapple farmer as the participants of community service. They were socialized, trained, and mentored on the development of home industry made from pineapple and the process of producing pineapple as the traditional medicine use for various diseases. The knowledge transferred are: 1) Training of food production made from pineapple, 2) Handbook on traditional medicine made from people, 3) Simple Bookkeeping Training, 4) The procedure of Trading Business License. 

Cow Protectionism and Bovine Frozen-Semen Farms in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yamini Narayanan
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Breeding Programs ◽  
Frozen Semen ◽  
Head Count ◽  
Cow Protection ◽  
Food Production System

AbstractGlobal warming and livestock farming are intertwined, and both call for radical policy changes that recognize animal rights. India has the world’s largest bovine head count, and is exceptionally vulnerable to climate change. It is uniquely placed in having cow protection legislations, though the focus is limited to the end of the bovine lifecycle by criminalizing slaughter and beef. However, breeding programs, the start of the industrial animal lifecycle, also need to be abolished for animal rights and environmental protection. Using the exploitation of bulls in bovine frozen-semen farms, this article critiques the practice in terms of cruelty; speciesism; and climatic change. It argues that with an expanded moral baseline on protection that is explicitly embedded in animal rights, India is well placed to respond with radical action by abolishing nonhuman animal husbandry as an outdated food production system that is inconsistent with planetary and ethical realities.

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