Richard Twine
Reader in Sociology at Edge Hill University, and Co-Director of the Centre for Human/Animal Studies (CfHAS), Edge Hill University.
Previously worked at the Institute of Education (University of London), University of Glasgow, Lancaster University.
Previously worked at the Institute of Education (University of London), University of Glasgow, Lancaster University.
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Under the remit of an expanded definition of sustainability – one that acknowledges animal agriculture as a key carbon intensive industry, and one that includes interspecies ethics as an integral part of social justice – institutions such as Universities can and should play a role in supporting a wider agenda for sustainable food practices on campus. By drawing out clear connections between sustainability objectives on campus and the shift away from animal based products, the objective of this article is to advocate for a more consistent understanding and implementation of sustainability measures as championed by university campuses at large. We will draw out clear connections between sustainability objectives on campus and the shift away from animal based products. Overall, our arguments are contextualised within broader debates on the relationship between sustainability, social justice and interspecies ethics. We envisage that such discussion will contribute to an enriched, more robust sense of sustainability—one in which food justice refers not only to justice for human consumers and producers of food and the land used by them, but also to justice for the nonhuman animals considered as potential sources of food themselves.
Situated, then, at the intersection of critical animal studies (CAS) and science and technology studies (STS), we are interested in the trajectories of animal biotechnology and how they may intensify or disrupt traditionally hierarchical relations between humans and other animals. Given that scientific knowledge production has been bound up in both vivisection and the commodification of farmed animals, we are interested in how new forms of knowledge could potentially reconfigure what has been an antagonistic relationship between science and social movements for animal advocacy, even though the epistemological diversity of the former has also provided much in the way of knowledge-claims for animal minds, subjectivity, and sociality via ethology and animal-welfare science.
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Under the remit of an expanded definition of sustainability – one that acknowledges animal agriculture as a key carbon intensive industry, and one that includes interspecies ethics as an integral part of social justice – institutions such as Universities can and should play a role in supporting a wider agenda for sustainable food practices on campus. By drawing out clear connections between sustainability objectives on campus and the shift away from animal based products, the objective of this article is to advocate for a more consistent understanding and implementation of sustainability measures as championed by university campuses at large. We will draw out clear connections between sustainability objectives on campus and the shift away from animal based products. Overall, our arguments are contextualised within broader debates on the relationship between sustainability, social justice and interspecies ethics. We envisage that such discussion will contribute to an enriched, more robust sense of sustainability—one in which food justice refers not only to justice for human consumers and producers of food and the land used by them, but also to justice for the nonhuman animals considered as potential sources of food themselves.
Situated, then, at the intersection of critical animal studies (CAS) and science and technology studies (STS), we are interested in the trajectories of animal biotechnology and how they may intensify or disrupt traditionally hierarchical relations between humans and other animals. Given that scientific knowledge production has been bound up in both vivisection and the commodification of farmed animals, we are interested in how new forms of knowledge could potentially reconfigure what has been an antagonistic relationship between science and social movements for animal advocacy, even though the epistemological diversity of the former has also provided much in the way of knowledge-claims for animal minds, subjectivity, and sociality via ethology and animal-welfare science.
Please contact me if you can't access the pdf
Under the remit of an expanded definition of sustainability – one that acknowledges animal agriculture as a key carbon intensive industry, and one that includes interspecies ethics as an integral part of social justice – institutions such as Universities can and
should play a role in supporting a wider agenda for sustainable food practices on campus. By
drawing out clear connections between sustainability objectives on campus and the shift away
from animal based products, the objective of this article is to advocate for a more consistent
understanding and implementation of sustainability measures as championed by university
campuses at large. We will draw out clear connections between sustainability objectives on
campus and the shift away from animal based products. Overall, our arguments are
contextualised within broader debates on the relationship between sustainability, social justice
and interspecies ethics. We envisage that such discussion will contribute to an enriched, more
robust sense of sustainability—one in which food justice refers not only to justice for human
consumers and producers of food and the land used by them, but also to justice for the
nonhuman animals considered as potential sources of food themselves.