{"id":28616,"date":"2018-04-05T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=28616"},"modified":"2019-04-08T13:12:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:12:29","slug":"new-book-from-erin-mckenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/new-book-from-erin-mckenna\/","title":{"rendered":"New book from Erin McKenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>a new book from <a href=\"https:\/\/philosophy.uoregon.edu\/profile\/emckenna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erin McKenna<\/a>, Professor, UO Department of Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>Erin McKenna&#8217;s new book, <em>Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends<\/em>, has been<br \/>\npublished by the University of Georgia Press.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28619\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/new-book-from-erin-mckenna\/erin-mckenna-ohf9ya\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28619\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28619\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/erin-mckenna-ohf9ya.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erin McKenna<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Description from the publisher&#8217;s website<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most livestock in the United States currently live in cramped and unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being transported and killed under stressful conditions. In Livestock, Erin McKenna allows us to see this situation and presents alternatives. She interweaves stories from visits to farms, interviews with producers and activists, and other rich material about the current condition of livestock. In addition, she mixes her account with pragmatist and ecofeminist theorizing about animals, drawing in particular on John Dewey&#8217;s account of evolutionary history, and provides substantial historical background<br \/>\nabout individual species and about human-animal relations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/new-book-from-erin-mckenna\/mckenna_bookcover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28618\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-28618\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/McKenna_bookcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"306\"><\/a>This deeply informative text reveals that the animals we commonly see as livestock have rich evolutionary histories, species-specific behaviors, breed tendencies, and individual variation, just as those we respect in companion animals such as dogs, cats, and horses. To restore a similar level of respect for livestock, McKenna examines ways we can balance the needs of our livestock animals with the environmental and social impacts of raising them, and she investigates new possibilities for humans to be in relationships with other animals. This book thus offers us a picture of healthier, more respectful relationships with livestock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the University of Georgia Press: <a href=\"https:\/\/ugapress.org\/book\/9780820351919\/livestock\/\">https:\/\/ugapress.org\/book\/9780820351919\/livestock\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends a new book from Erin McKenna, Professor, UO Department of Philosophy Erin McKenna&#8217;s new book, Livestock: Food, Fiber, and Friends, has been published by the University of Georgia Press. Description from the publisher&#8217;s website: &#8220;Most&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/new-book-from-erin-mckenna\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,5],"tags":[775,776,187,158],"class_list":["post-28616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates","category-research","tag-erin-mckenna","tag-livestock","tag-philosophy","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30414,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28616\/revisions\/30414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}