Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter Book

Acknowledgments ix

1 Food Animals: More Than a "Walking Larder"? 1

2 Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human-Livestock Relations 17

3 Women and Livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production 43

4 "Price Discovery": Marketing and Valuing Livestock 65

5 "The Good Life": Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock 89

6 Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock 115

7 Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer-Livestock Relations 129

8 Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death 147

9 Taking Stock: Food Animals, Ambiguous Relations, and Productive Contexts 173

Notes 187

Glossary of Doric Terms 203

References 205

Index 225