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 …

This paper offers a critical examination of the narrative landscape that has emerged with a
new movement of alternative proteins intended as substitutes for conventional meat, milk …

This article examines microbial ecologies and industrial ontologies as they unfold in the
animal worlds created by the American factory farm. Based in a hundred-mile radius region …

Today, in vitro (Latin: in glass) meat researchers strive to overhaul meat production
technologies by producing meat outside animal bodies, primarily by culturing cells. In the …

Attention to culinary care can enrich the framing of health within medical anthropology. We
focus on care practices in six Latin American kitchens to illuminate forms of health not …

Caregiving can be conceptualized as involving practices of substitution, in which doctors,
nurses, and health assistants step into the subject positions of their charges in order to …

Today plant-based alternatives to animal-agricultural products are made available or
developed alongside 'cultured'meat, and products utilising genetic modification. To …

Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life. In the animal facility, fragile
piglets substitute for humans who cannot be experimented on. In the neonatal intensive care …

During ethnographic research on the biopolitics of culinary nationalism in Peru, I visited a
guinea pig breeding farm north of Lima. Guinea pigs are considered “food animals” in the …

How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by
ecological change and political uncertainty. On the Black Sea coast and the shores of the …