Anthropology of Food

In the News . . .

• Farmed fish feel pain, stress and anxiety and must be killed humanely, global regulator accepts -- The Guardian (08 October 2022)
  
  
• US bird flu outbreak: millions of birds culled in ‘most inhumane way available’ -- The Guardian (06 June 2022)
  
  
• US egg factory roasts alive 5.3m chickens in avian flu cull – then fires almost every worker -- The Guardian (28 April 2022)
  
  
• ‘Showing respect’: revival of Japanese technique that promises fish a better way to die -- The Guardian (28 February 2022)
  
  
• McDonald's pig policy fight escalates with board nominations -- BBCnews (21 February 2022)
  
  
• The evidence is all around us: life outside the single market is an utter disaster -- TheGuardian (17 February 2022)
  
  
• Germany plans mandatory animal welfare label: 'Improving animal welfare cannot be achieved with zero costs' -- FOODnavigator (18 January 2022)
  
  
• We Will Look Back on This Age of Cruelty to Animals in Horror -- The New York Times (16 December 2021)
  
  
• Protests at 'inhumane' export of live horses to Japan for food -- The Guardian (27 March 2021)
  
  
• EU Court backs ban on animal slaughter without stunning -- BBCNews (17 December 2020)
  
  
• Costco is the latest retailer to drop Chaokoh coconut milk over allegations of forced monkey labor, PETA says -- USA Today (28 October 2020)
  
  
• Alleged animal abuse in US dairy sector under investigation -- The Guardian (15 October 2020)
  
  
• Film showing 'cannibalism' prompts probable ban on fur farms in Poland -- The Guardian (29 September 2020)
  
  
• Moon bears: Korean campaigners call for farm closures -- BBCNews (21 July 2020)
  
  
• Planned wild boar cull in Poland angers conservationists -- The Guardian (29 January 2019)
  
  
• Beef scare: Polish bad meat spreads to 11 EU states -- BBCNews (21 January 2019)
  
  
• Buller, Henry and Emma Rowe. Food and Animal Welfare. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
  
  
• South Korea closes dog slaughterhouse amid activist pressure -- The Guardian (12 January 2019)
  
  
• Whole Foods v vegans: Berkeley store gets restraining order against activists -- The Guardian (05 October 2018)
  
  
• Switzerland considers tighter rules on sustainable 'fair food' -- BBCNews (23 September 2018)
  
  
• Restaurant tries marijuana for lobsters to take the edge off being boiled -- The Guardian (20 September 2018)
  
  
• Would you eat slaughter-free meat? -- BBCNews (15 October 2018)
  
  
• The unstoppable rise of veganism: how a fringe movement went mainstream -- The Guardian (01 April 2018)
  
  
• Offended by Koreans eating dog? I trust you’ve never had a bacon butty -- The Guardian (15 February 2019)
  
  
• Inside the grim scene of a Korean dog meat farm, just miles from the Winter Olympics -- USA Today (12 February 2018)
  
  
• Crabs and lobsters deserve protection from being cooked alive -- Jonathan Birch, Aeon (03 November 2017)
  
  
• Do you care if your fish dinner was raised humanely? Animal advocates say you should -- MPRNews (20 October 2017)
  
  
• How We Love Our Pigs: Local Food And Animal Ethics -- NPR (18 August 2016)
  
  
• In quest for happier chickens, Perdue shifts how birds live and die -- MPRNews (27 June 2016)
  
  
• Vietnam: Village agrees to tone down pig slaughter event -- BBCNews (16 October 2015)
  
  
• Dude, Where’s My Carnitas? Why Chipotle Pulled the Plug on Pork -- Josh Scherer, takepart (14 January 2015)
  
  
• Orangutan Declared to Have Basic Legal Rightsin Argentina -- NPR (23 December 2014)
  
  
• Orangutan in Argentina Zoo Wins Right to Freedom -- Discovery News (22 December 2014)
  
  
• Finally, a ‘Kickstarter’ for Sustainable Food Projects -- Alix Wall and Bay Area Bites, Civil Eats (28 August 2014)
  
  
• Civil Eats [James Beard Foundation Publication of the Year 2014]
  
  
• Are Chicks Brighter Than Babies? -- Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times (15 October 2013)
  
  
• Censoring Our Food -- Jill RIchardson, Nation of Change (26 May 2013)
  
  
• Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime -- Richard A. Oppel, Jr., New York Times (06 April 2013)
  
  
• How Animal and Human Emotions Are Different -- LiveScience (29 February 2012)
  
  
• Hormel ends small metal crates for pregnant hogs [by the end of 2017] -- MPR (03 February 2012)
  
  
• The Vegetarian Lesson -- Chad Lavin, Chronicle of Higher Education (14 August 2011)
  
  
• The Science And Ethics Of Research On Chimps -- NPR (02 June 2011)
  
  
• Orangutan survival and the shopping trolley -- Panorama, BBC (22 February 2010)
  
  
• Cows with Names Make More Milk -- LiveScience (27 January 2009)

• American Humane Association
  • Farm Animal Welfare
    • The American Humane Certified program (formerly the Free Farmed Program)
  • No Animals Were Harmed
    
    
• Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) -- USDA
  
  
• American Veterinary Medical Association Media Library
  
  
• Baur, Gene. Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food. NY: Touchstone, 2008.
  
  
• Center to Study Human Animal Relationships and Environments (CENSHARE) -- School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
  
  
• Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing -- Johns Hopkins School for Public Health
  
  
• Compassion in World Farming Trusts
  
  
• Eisnitz, Gail. A. Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007.
  
  
• Essig, Mark. Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig. NY: Basic Books, 2015.
  
  
• Ethical Principles [for the protection of human subjects in research] -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  
• Ethics in Food and Agriculture -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  
  
• The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century. Gregory E. Pence. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
  
  
• The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter. Singer, Peter, and Jim Mason. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Books, 2007.
  
  
• Factory Farm
  
  
• Farm Sanctuary
  
  
• Foer, Jonathan Safran Foer. Eating Animals. NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
  
  
• Foie Gras
  
  
  • Caro, Mark. The Foie Gras Wars: How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
    
    
  • Daguin, André, and Anne de Ravel. Foie Gras, Magret, and Other Good Food from Gascony Random House, 1988).
    
    
  • Foie Gras: Delecasy of Despair -- GormetCruelty.com
    
    
  • Foie Gras: Facts and Truth -- French industry videos
    
    
  • Ginor, Michael. Foie gras: A Passion (Wiley, 1999).
    
    
  • StopForceFeeding.com
    
    
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  • Animal Production & Health
    
    
• Goodall, Jane. Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating. NY: Wellness Cenral/Hachette, 2006.
  
  
• Grandin, Temple
  
  

Temple Grandin Temple Grandin, professor at Colorado State University and autistic savant, used her unusual abilities to improve the tools of livestock farming. -- Exploring Temple Grandin's Brain -- Discover (13 March 2013) Exploring Temple Grandin's Brain -- Discover (13 March 2013) Grandin, Temple. The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. What Do Animals Think?: Temple Grandin says animals think like autistic humans. She should know -- Discover (01 May 2005) The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow: The world's most famous person with autism uses her unusual cognitive abilities to reduce animal suffering -- BBC (49 min. 2006) "This fascinating program introduces Temple Grandin, who is autistic. She is also a leading professor in her field—animal science. Temple has shattered expectations of what autistic people can achieve, and her latest theory is just as groundbreaking. She believes the autistic mind is closer to the animal mind than the typical human mind. Temple describes herself as someone who thinks in pictures, in the same way animals do. Just as animals can find it hard to learn general principles, autistic people can have difficulty understanding abstract concepts that cannot be visualized. But they can also exhibit specialist skills beyond the capability of people with normal brains." A BBC Production.   "If brain tissue is damaged or does not develop fully, the ventricles—vessels filled with cerebrospinal fluid, shown in blue in this image based on neuroimaging work—expand to fill the space. Temple Grandin’s enlarged left ventricle is a sign of abnormalities in her left hemisphere, which typically handles language, and may account for the difficulties she has with processing words." -- Exploring Temple Grandin's Brain -- Discover (13 March 2013) Grandin, Temple. The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. Grandin, Temple (Ed.). Genetics and Behavior of Domestic Animals. London: Academic Press, 2014. Grandin, Temple (Ed.). Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach. Cambridge, MA: CABI, 2010. Grandin, Temple. Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All. -- The New York Times (09 January 2023) Grandin, Temple -- "The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow: The world's most famous person with autism uses her unusual cognitive abilities to reduce animal suffering" -- BBC (49 min. 2006) More Temple Grandin Information Grandin, Temple, and Catherine Johnson. Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior. NY: Scribner, 2005. Grandin, Temple, and Catherine Johnson. Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Grandin, Temple, and Mark Deesing. Humane Livestock Handling. North Adams, MA: Storey, 2008. Todd, Rohan, and Maria Hynes. 2017. “Encountering the Animal: Temple Grandin Slaughterhouses and the Possibilities of a Differential Ontology.” The Sociological Review Vol. 64, No. 4, 729–744. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026116677201.

• Hedgepeth, William. The Hog Book. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
  
  
• Horwitz, Richard P. Hog Ties: What Pigs Tell Us About America. NY: St. Martin's, 1998.
  
  
• Humanimalia: A journal of human/animal interface studies -- DePauw University
  
  
• The Humane Society of the United States
  
  
• Imhoff, Daniel (Ed.). The CAFO Reader: The Gragedy of Industrial Animal Factories. Heraldsburg, CA: Watershed, 2010.
  
  
• Jeremy Clarkson eats an Ortolan bunting. Sep 5, 2007
  • Jeremy Clarkson Meets The Neighbours (2002) - Episode 1. Jeremy eats an Ortolan Bunting
    
    
• Lab Meat? -- NOVA Science Now (July 2006)
  
  
• Media Library -- American Veterinary Medical Association
  
  
• The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
  
  
• Niman, Nicolette Hahn. Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food beyond Factory Farms. NY: HarperCollins, 2009.
  
  
• Norwood, F. Bailey, and Jayson L. Lusk. Compassion by the Pound: The Economics of Animal Welfare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  
  
• Pachirat, Timothy. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
  
  
• People for the Ethnical Treatment of Animals
  
  
• Rollin, Bernard E. Animal Rights and Human Morality. Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2006.
  
  
• Rollin, Bernard E. Farm Animal Welfare: Social, Bioethical, and Research Issues. Ames, IA: Iowa State Press, 1995.
  
  
• Rollin, Bernard E. Putting the Horse before Descartes: My Life's Work on Behalf of Animals. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011.
  
  
• Rollin, Bernard E. Science and Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  
  
• Safran, Jonathan. Eating Animal. Little, Brown, 2009.
  
  
• Salatin, Joel. The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs. NY: Faith Works, 2016.
  
  
• Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
  
  
• Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. NY: Harper Perennial, 2001.
  
  
• Singer, Peter (Ed.). In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001.
  
  
• Singer, Peter, and Jim Mason. The Ethics of What We Eat. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006.
  
  
• Singer, Peter, and Jim Mason. The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006.
  
  
• Todd, Rohan, and Maria Hynes. 2017. “Encountering the Animal: Temple Grandin Slaughterhouses and the Possibilities of a Differential Ontology.” The Sociological Review Vol. 64, No. 4, 729–744. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026116677201.
  
  
• Webster, John. Animal Welfare: Limping towards Eden. Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.
  
  
• Weinstein, Jay. The Ethical Gourmet: How to Enjoy Great Food That is Humanely Raised, Sustainable, Non-Endangered and That Replenishes the Earth. NY: Broadway Books, 2006.
  
  
• Weiss, Brad. Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.