| Food and Animal Welfare Contributor(s): Buller, Henry (Author), Roe, Emma (Author), Goodman, David (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0857855786 ISBN-13: 9780857855787 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $133.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Agriculture & Food - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Series: Contemporary Food Studies: Economy, Culture and Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.11 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing together the latest research and a range of case studies, Henry Buller and Emma Roe guide readers on a fascinating journey through animal welfare issues 'from farm to fork'. Animal welfare offers a vital lens through which to explore the economies, culture and politics of food. This is the first text to provide a much-needed overview of this strongly debated area of the food industry. Buller and Roe explore how animal welfare is defined, advocated, assessed and implemented by farmers, veterinarians, distributors, and consumers. From the practicalities and limitations of establishing a basic standard of care for livestock, to the ethics of selling welfare as a product in the supermarket, this indispensable book offers empirical insights into a key aspect of the global food system: the lives, deaths, and consumption of animals which are at the core of the food chain. It is a must-read for students and scholars of animal welfare, agro-food studies and human-animal relations in disciplines such as geography, politics, anthropology, and sociology as well as animal behaviour, psychology and veterinary science. |
Contributor Bio(s): Roe, Emma: - Emma Roe BSc PhD is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. Beginning her career studying embodied consumption practices, she moved into the study of farm animal welfare through working on the EU WelfareQuality(R) research project between 2004-2009. She has established herself as one of the leading academics in the governance of food retail and food service markets for higher welfare food products and the ethics and politics around sentient materialities and somatic sensibilities in food/animal/human research. She continues to work closely with animal welfare expertise in the animal science and food industry community.Buller, Henry: - Henry Buller, BA, PhD is Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter. He is Editor of the international rural social science journal Sociologia Ruralis, recent Chair of the IBG/RGS Rural Geography Study Group (2003-2007) and is a member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Rural Sociology. Henry Buller sits as an appointed member on the Farm Animal Welfare Council of Great Britain and is Chair of the Welfare at Slaughter Committee. Author and editor of over well over 100 books, articles and reports on rural development, EU agricultural, environmental and rural policy, food policy, animals and animal welfare, he has been a key member of the EU funded WelfareQuality(R) research project (2005-2010). Other recent and current research includes 'Eating Biodiversity' (2005-2007) funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, which looked at the relationship between food quality, biodiversity and animal grazing management and Understanding Human Behaviour through Human/Animal Interaction (2009-2010), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and looking at the influence of human/animal interactions of human behaviour. |
