scholarly journals Living Waste and the Labor of Toxic Health on American Factory Farms

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Blanchette
Keyword(s):  
Factory Farms

‘The Only Monsters here are the Filmmakers’: Animal cruelty and death in Italian Cannibal Films

2016 ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
Mark Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Animal Cruelty ◽  
Animal Abuse ◽  
Factory Farms

Many contemporary horror filmmakers pride themselves on violating taboos in their films, especially taboos concerning violence. However, there is a line that even many of the most hardened filmmakers refuse to cross: violence against animals. In fact, some horror filmmakers have spoken out against animal abuse. For instance, heavy metal musician-turned-horror filmmaker Rob Zombie… teamed up with the organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in 2007 to record a message for their ‘Thanksgiving Hotline’, a ‘compassionate alternative’ to the Butterball Turkey Talk Line that offers tips on turkey preparation. Zombie is a self-described ‘ethical vegetarian’ and as such his contribution details the cruelty and mistreatment to which turkeys are subjected in Butterball’s factory farms (PETA, 2007). In 2009 another horror filmmaker, Eli Roth, director of the Hostel films (2006–7), appeared in a promotional spot for PETA.

scholarly journals Factory Farms in a Consumer Society

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-92
Author(s):  
Chad Lavin
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Society ◽  
Factory Farms

The Green New Deal: What Makes It Necessary, What It Is, and How We Can Get It

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 159-165
Author(s):  
Carl Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Global Studies ◽  
Zero Waste ◽  
Design For All ◽  
Co2 Levels ◽  
Factory Farms ◽  
Slide Show

Abstract This article serves as the content for a slide show presented at the Global Studies Association conference held at Loyola University in Chicago on June 6-8, 2019. The discussion emphasized the importance of establishing The Green New Deal by transitioning away from burning carbon and uranium to stop and reduce CO2 levels, building a Smart Grid, redesigning and rebuilding industries for zero waste, transitioning from agribusiness factory farms to organic, sustainable family-sized farms, redesigning new housing and retrofitting existing stock, increasing innovation and high design for all products and services, and curbing the production of poisons and removing pollutants from human consumption. The link to the presentation is http://ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/Green-New-Deal-2.pdf.

Sympathy, Empathy, and the Plight of Animals on Factory Farms

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-268
Author(s):  
Brenda J. Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Animal Rights ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Factory Farming ◽  
Female Animal ◽  
Factory Farms ◽  
Feminist Theories

Are sympathy and empathy important indicators as to who is likely to join the anti-factory farming movement? Are female animal rights activists more likely than male activists to be sympathetic or empathetic toward animals in factory farms or are both genders about the same? Do male activists sympathize or empathize with factory farm animals differently than female activists do? These are important questions for understanding involvement in animal rights groups. In order to answer these questions, a survey that dealt with attitudes toward factory farming was administered to animal rights activists that attended a 2008 animal rights convention in the Washington, dc, area. The results of this survey provided an opportunity to see if feminist theories of sympathy and empathy are useful in explaining gender differences.

scholarly journals The Vanishing Ethics of Husbandry

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-221
Author(s):  
Paul B. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Animal Ethics ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Philosophical Discussion ◽  
Economic Rationale ◽  
Factory Farms

AbstractThe ethics of food production should include philosophical discussion of the condition or welfare of livestock, including for animals being raised in high volume, concentrated production systems (e.g. factory farms). Philosophers should aid producers and scientists in specifying conditions for improved welfare in these systems. An adequately non-ideal approach to this problem should recognize both the economic rationale for these systems as well as the way that they constrain opportunities for improving animal welfare. Recent philosophical work on animal ethics has been dominated by authors who not only neglect this imperative, but also defeat it by drawing on oversimplified and rhetorically overstated descriptions of the conditions in which factory farmed animals actually live. This feature of philosophical animal ethics reflects a form of structural narcissism in which adopting a morally correct attitude defeats actions that could actually improve the welfare of livestock in factory farms to a considerable degree.

Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food Culture

Animalities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Lykke Syse
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Factory Farms ◽  
Industrial Food Production ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Looking Back

Syse defends Nordic and British chefs, cookbooks, television shows, and food magazines advocating for meat-eaters to face up to the animals that must be killed before they are eaten. Slaughtering one’s own pig and eating all parts of an animal from nose to tail, for example, are put forth as better ways of “respecting” animals, and as a critique of industrial food production and factory farms. In this kind of food culture, looking back nostalgically to times when people were more likely to live on farms and slaughter their own animals is seen as a way of finding “authenticity” in the modern world. This desire to “re-animate” one’s meat can construct traditional forms of masculinity and gender roles, but in Syse’s analysis it is more important to focus on the stated intentions of the chefs and writers at hand, which includes condemning the distance between carnivores and the real lives of the animals they consume.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Hale
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Vegetarian Diet ◽  
Factory Farms ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Mind

Apart from the time I substituted a cup of salt for a cup of sugar, one of my first cooking misadventures occurred in the early 1990s, on a Thanksgiving trip home from college. Filled with an arsenal of ideas and a mind for social change, I was home to proselytize, eager to persuade my family that a vegetarian diet was not only the right diet but the tastiest diet as well. It was my view then that each of us is obligated to do our part to undermine the negative impacts of factory farms. Not only are such farms cruel to animals, I thought, but they are also an extremely inefficient way of providing food. I was of the mind that each American bore the burden to change his or her behavior to help put factory farms out of business. And so I took it upon myself to demonstrate that a good, healthy holiday meal needn’t be propped up by honey-baked hams and richly stuffed turkeys....

scholarly journals Oxygen-ozone activity in making factory farms antibiotic-free for prevention of antibiotic resistance

Ozone Therapy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Valdenassi ◽  
Marianno Franzini ◽  
Pierpaolo Garbelli ◽  
Manuele Camolese
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Bacterial Strains ◽  
Inappropriate Use ◽  
Chemotherapy Drugs ◽  
Factory Farms ◽  
New Antibiotics

For some years an increasing number of bacterial strains have shown resistance to common antibiotics and chemotherapy drugs. The excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics is at the root of this problem, which could develop to a devastating extent if not controlled properly. It should not be forgotten that the pharmaceutical industry itself appears to be unable to offer the necessary countermeasures in terms of advanced research within tight deadlines because of the objective difficulties with synthesis of new antibiotics. The use of oxygen-ozone appears to give a concrete answer to the problem through application in the dietary and environment process of livestock.

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