In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive
pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In …

Food: The Key Concepts presents an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to
food studies for the beginning reader. Food Studies is an increasingly complex field …

Millions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with
gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How they experienced the realities of …

This review surveys the past 30 years of the anthropology of corporate animal agribusiness,
analyzing how various themes embedded in the words of the article's title—industrial, meat …

In The Mangle of Practice (1995), the renowned sociologist of science Andrew Pickering
argued for a reconceptualization of research practice as a “mangle,” an open-ended …

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This essay argues that bringing animals into the study of Latin American and Caribbean
environmental history could serve several purposes. It would forge a point of entry into the …

The development of mega‐hog farms is a contentious topic throughout the United States that
has garnered a lot of attention in the past five years. This article examines the construction of …

The condition of pale, soft and exudative (PSE) pork meat was recognized and documented
by 1960, and the condition of porcine stress syndrome (PSS) was understood within the …

In a report released in 2009, Greenpeace (2009) stated that the cattle sector in the Amazon
is the single largest driver of global deforestation, responsible for 14 percent of world's …