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Industrial Meat Production

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ID24092996
AuthorsAlex Blanchette (Tufts University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume47
Issue1
Pages185-199
Publication date2018-10-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317-050206
OpenAlexW2896149291
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited66

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, and production—have been taken up by ethnographers of confinement farms and mechanized slaughterhouses. In so doing, it describes how the literature finds the animal life-and-death cycle underlying modern meat to be a hybrid and uneven mixture of industrialisms both old and emerging, at once violent and caring, far-reaching yet incomplete. The review further examines the numerous and distinct ways that scholars have suggested that industrial meat production is an exceptional kind of industrialism: one that requires analytics, ethics, forms of critique, and modes of attention that differ from those developed by studies of other sites of manufacturing.

Agribusiness · Agriculture · Analytics · Animal production · Biology · Business · Data science · Economics · Environmental ethics · Industrial Revolution · Meat packing industry · Political science · Production (economics) · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture

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Unique citing works16
Citations per year1,14
Citation span2012 - 2026 (15)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 16
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