Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex

Gwen Hunnicutt is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She studies gender violence – its varieties, causes, consequences, interspecies entanglements, and politicizations. She is the author of Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective.Richard Twine is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Human-Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University, UK. He is the author of The Climate Crisis and Other Animals (2024), Animals as Biotechnology – Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies (2010) and he co-edited (with Nik Taylor) The Rise of Critical Animal Studies – From the Margins to the Centre (2014). He has also published several articles on ecofeminism, vegan transition, the food system, and the animal-industrial complex.Kenneth Mentor is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His published research includes peer-reviewed papers in the disciplines of criminology, organizational behavior, public administration, law and society, and online learning.

“Violence, of course, is not only found on the streets, in pubs and taverns, or in domestic/household settings. It is frequently directed at different types of nonhuman animals (NHAs). However, critical criminologists have not been fleet at foot in addressing this major world-wide problem. Thus, this ground-breaking anthology helps fill a major research gap. It is destined to become a classic that should be mandatory reading for all progressive criminologists concerned about the protection and preservation of NHAs.” - Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University"The volume strikes the right balance between theoretical and applied content and showcases the impressive expertise of scholars across multiple disciplines and countries. This volume will be of interest to many, including (critical) animal studies scholars, ecofeminists, and political economists (to name but a few), and more generally, anyone interested in developing a future where human actions no longer threaten the species and environments around us." - Professor Amy Fitzgerald, University of Windsor

• List of Contributors1. Towards Multi-Species Justice: Unveiling Violence and Exploitation in the Animal- Industrial ComplexPart I: REPRODUCING ‘A-IC-RELATED-VIOLENCE’ THROUGH DISCURSIVE STRATEGIES 2. Meat scientists fight back! What the Dublin declaration tells us about the role of academia in the animal-industrial complex3. Displaying Compassion to Hide Harms: An Analysis of the Visual Communication Strategies of the Spanish Animal Industrial Complex4. ‘But Bacon!’ The Performative Violence of Anti-Vegan TrollingPart II: THE TROUBLE WITH ‘VISIBILITY’ IN UNVEILING COMMODITY FETISHISM5. The Politics of Smell and The Morality of Sight: Challenging “Slaughterhouses with Glass Walls” in Animal Advocacy6. Beef, Bible, Bullets: Suicidal Cows and the Ecological Imaginings of Brazil7. Reexamining the Meatpacking-Methamphetamine HypothesisPart III: CULTURAL HEGEMONY OF ANIMAL CRUELTY COMMERCE 8. Selfie Safaris: The Violence of Contemporary Camera Hunting & Trophy Shot Selfies9. Following the Cultural Traces of Normalized and Legitimized Violence by Israeli Kosher Slaughterers toward Nonhuman Animals10. The Arena of Controversy: Bullfighting and Its Implications in Modern Spanish SocietyPart IV: LEGAL COLLUSION AND THE VIOLENCE OF ‘ANIMAL CAPITAL’11. Horseracing as regulated cruelty: A nonhuman animal victimology perspective.12. Non-human animals as property: what this means when companion animals are stolen13. “They have literally given up on life;” A review of the experiences of nonhuman animals subject to reproductive violence and coercion on factory and puppy farms.14. Which Animals Did Noah Eat?An Animal-Centric Focus on Food CrimePart V: THE IDEOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE OF PROFITABLE ‘A-IC-RELATED-VIOLENCE’15. Inside the Spanish Zoological Park Industry: Worker Insights on Human-Animal Relationships and Shared Vulnerabilities16. “If I Broke Down the Wall of Flesh:” Blurring the Human/Animal Distinction in the Slaughterhouse through Ivano Ferrari’s Poetry"17. Embodying Non-speciesism through Altered States of Consciousness18. A Time to Kill: Cruelty and Compassion with Companion Animals and Urban Wildlife19. The Lennie Small Paradox: Loving Animals to DeathIndex