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Monthly Archives: April 2009

“Mexican Flu”

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Those of us who study animals know that there is a strong connection between the treatment and representation of animals and other forms of human discrimination. Carol Adams (The Sexual Politics of Meat) has profitably explored the relationship between sexism and animal use; Charles Patterson (Eternal Treblinka) and Boria Sax (Animals in the Third Reich) [...]

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Overview of Animal Use in Canada

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Been collecting data that I “know,” but don’t actually have in front of me in any coherent fashion on “agri-business,” especially the meatpacking industry, in Canada. Great passage from a document at Agriculture and Agrifood Canada (a federal department) called Canada’s Poultry Industry: Poultry production and processing are among the most highly mechanized sectors in [...]

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The Death of the Animal

Friday, April 24, 2009

My review copy of Paola Cavalieri’s (with contributions from Peter Singer, Cary Wolfe, Harlan B. Miller, Matthew Calarco, and J.M. Coetzee) The Death of the Animal arrived in the mail yesterday. Thus far I’ve only had the opportunity to read the titular piece by Cavalieri, which is in the form of a dialogue between Alexandra [...]

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The Animals Class

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

As those who bothered to read my admittedly boring last post may have noticed, I’m in the midst of doing the final administrative and organizational matters for the “Enriched Mini-Course” I am teaching in early May. Among the various activities (it is supposed to be “hands-on”) I had wanted the students (mostly grade eight) to [...]

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Excessively ambitious to-do list

Monday, April 20, 2009

Write overview for first year seminar on “Animals, Environment and the Law” Finish planning the course on animals for the Enriched Mini-Course Program: guest speakers, teaching notes, videos Finish chapter on Locke Convert finished chapter on Locke into conference paper Finish chapter on anthropomorphism Convert finished chapter on anthropomorphism into conference paper Finish paper on [...]

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