Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter

Abstract

Acknowledgments 1. Food Animals: More Than a Walking Larder? 2. Domestication to Industry: Commercialization of Human-Livestock Relations 3. Women and livestock: Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production 4. Price Discovery: Marketing and Valuing Livestock 5. The Good life: Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock 6. Sentient Commodities: Ambiguous Status of Livestock 7. Affinities and Aloofness: Pragmatic Nature of Producer-Livestock Relations 8. Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death 9. Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive Contexts Notes Glossary of Doric Terms References Index