“Off-Animals and the End of the American Factory Farm”
Alex Blanchette, associate professor of anthropology and environmental studies at Tufts University, will present “Off-Animals and the End of the American Factory Farm” at noon Friday, April 1, in East Pyne Hall, Room 010. Lunch will be available afterward in the East Pyne 010 corridor.
Blanchette will draw from his recent book, “Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life and the Factory Farm,” and his research on the remains of Chicago’s Union Stockyards to examine “off-animals” — the biological refuse of agribusiness, from aged boars to misshapen pigs — as indicators of the waning state of labor and value in the United States today. Evolving attempts to industrially slaughter these creatures for meat has led to a shadow infrastructure of killing that, in turn, underpins some of the world’s largest factory farms — and potentially signals their limits.
This event is organized by the Princeton Food Project and the Effron Center for the Study of America with co-sponsorship by HMEI, the Princeton Humanities Council, the Department of Anthropology, and the University Center for Human Values.
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“Off-Animals and the End of the American Factory Farm”
Alex Blanchette, associate professor of anthropology and environmental studies at Tufts University, will present “Off-Animals and the End of the American Factory Farm” at noon Friday, April 1, in East Pyne Hall, Room 010. Lunch will be available afterward in the East Pyne 010 corridor.
Blanchette will draw from his recent book, “Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life and the Factory Farm,” and his research on the remains of Chicago’s Union Stockyards to examine “off-animals” — the biological refuse of agribusiness, from aged boars to misshapen pigs — as indicators of the waning state of labor and value in the United States today. Evolving attempts to industrially slaughter these creatures for meat has led to a shadow infrastructure of killing that, in turn, underpins some of the world’s largest factory farms — and potentially signals their limits.
This event is organized by the Princeton Food Project and the Effron Center for the Study of America with co-sponsorship by HMEI, the Princeton Humanities Council, the Department of Anthropology, and the University Center for Human Values.
