The Capitalist Commodification of Animals
Dr Brett Clark editor Dr Tamar Diana Wilson editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
Published:30th Nov '20
Should be back in stock very soon
While animal suffering and abuse have taken place throughout history, the alienation of humanity from nature caused by the development of capitalism - by the logic of capital and its system of generalized commodity production - accelerated and increased the depredations in scope and scale.
The capitalist commodification of animals is extensive. It includes, but is not limited to:
- livestock production in concentrated animal feeding operations
- leather and fur production
- the ivory trade in which tusks are used for 'traditional medicines; or carved into decorative objects
- entertainment such as in zoos, marine parks, and circuses
- laboratory experimentation to test medicines, beauty products, pesticides, and other chemicals
- the pursuit of trophy hunting, sometimes on canned farms and sometimes in the wild
- bioengineering of livestock and of animals used in laboratories
ISBN: 9781839826818
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 445g
232 pages