Sausages and a Turning Point

Sausages and a Turning Point

Perhaps the ultimate metamorphosis is for an animal to go from being a living being to being a sausage. Nothing about a sausage looks like flesh or bone. But Eric Shelley tells us that “we can’t stop thinking about the fact that this was once a living...
Teaching Humane Harvesting at SUNY Cobleskill

Teaching Humane Harvesting at SUNY Cobleskill

David and I visited Eric Shelley at the SUNY Cobleskill Meat Lab again today and learned more about humane slaughter. He spent a lot of time explaining to his students how to determine if a stun has been done correctly and if an animal has lost consciousness. We had...
Presentation at the University of Oslo

Presentation at the University of Oslo

Last week I was invited to give a presentation about my research on humane slaughter at The Rhetoric of Human-Animal Relations Workshop at the University of Oslo, May 29th – 30th 2012. The workshop, organized by Kristian Bjørkdahl, was sponsored by the...