In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive
pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In …

Technology and responsibility: a discussion of underexamined risks and concerns in Precision
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In this thought-provoking and innovative book, Kendra Coulter examines the diversity of
work done with, by, and for animals. Interweaving human-animal studies, labor theories and …

Qualitative research related to humans, dairy cows, calves and farming has been published
by scientists from a variety of disciplines in many journals targeting dairy science audiences …

Precision livestock farming (PLF) is the management of livestock using the principles and
technology of process engineering. Key to PLF is the dense monitoring of variegated …

Precision livestock farming (PLF) promises to allow modern, large-scale farms to replicate, at
scale, caring farmers who know their animals. PLF refers to a suite of technologies, some …

Ethical concerns regarding agricultural practices can be found to co-evolve with
technological developments. This paper aims to create an understanding of ethics that is …

Emerging perspectives on the labor of animals highlight the role of non-humans in
generating value. However, few of these accounts explore the role of resistance in shaping …

Robotic milking or automatic milking systems (AMS) are becoming increasingly popular in
Norway as well as in the other Nordic countries. To explore what motivates farmers to invest …

This paper begins to develop a terminology for discussing less-than-convivial more-than-
human entanglements. The paper reviews existing work on such relations, showing how …