Tag: animals

Measuring Agroecological Performance of Dairy Cattle Systems in the Peruvian Amazon

Dante M. Pizarro, Carlos A. Gomez, & Michel A. Wattiaux Abstract Agriculture’s contribution to climate change and social injustice related food systems have become major societal concerns around the globe. However, there is increasing evidence that agroecological practices can contribute to improving the sustainability, resilience, and equity of agriculture and food systems. Using a recently …

Screening Slaughter

Glen Close My current book project is a study of documentary films from Latin America and elsewhere that contain representations of commercial animal slaughter. I propose to read these films in the historical context of the modern industrialization and concealment of livestock farming and meat processing. Over the last two centuries, slaughter and meat processing …