Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex Human-Animal Entanglements

List of Contributors

1. Toward Multispecies Justice: Unveiling Violence and Exploitation in the Animal- Industrial Complex

Gwen Hunnicutt, Richard Twine, and Ken Mentor

Part I: REPRODUCING ‘A-IC-RELATED-VIOLENCE’ THROUGH DISCURSIVE STRATEGIES

2. Meat Scientists Fight Back! What the Dublin Declaration tells us about the Role of Academia in the Animal-Industrial Complex

Richard Twine

3. Displaying Compassion to Hide Harms: An Analysis of the Visual Communication Strategies of the Spanish Animal-Industrial Complex

Laura Fernández, Estela M. Díaz, Olatz Aranceta-Reboredo, and Núria Almiron

4. ‘But Bacon!’ The Performative Violence of Anti-Vegan Trolling

Jason Hannan

Part II: THE TROUBLE WITH "VISIBILITY" IN UNVEILING COMMODITY FETISHISM

5. The Politics of Smell and The Morality of Sight: Challenging “Slaughterhouses with Glass Walls” in Animal Advocacy

Chiara Stefanoni

6. Beef, Bible, Bullets: Suicidal Cows and the Ecological Imaginings of Brazil

Jessica Carey-Webb

7. Re-examining the Meatpacking-Methamphetamine Hypothesis

Cindy Brooks Dollar and Josh Hendrix

Part III: CULTURAL HEGEMONY OF ANIMAL CRUELTY COMMERCE

8. Selfie Safaris: The Violence of Contemporary Camera Hunting and Trophy Shot Selfies

Corina Medley

9. Following the Cultural Traces of Normalized and Legitimized Violence by Israeli Kosher Slaughterers toward Nonhuman Animals

Anat Ben Yonatan

10. The Arena of Controversy: Bullfighting and Its Implications in Modern Spanish Society

Patricia Puente-Guerrero

Part IV: LEGAL COLLUSION AND THE VIOLENCE OF "ANIMAL CAPITAL’"

11. Horseracing as Regulated Cruelty: A Nonhuman Animal victimology Perspective.

Melanie Flynn and Angus Nurse

12. Non-H|uman Animals as Property: What This Means When Companion Animals Are Stolen

Daniel Allen and Tanya Wyatt

13. “They have Literally Given up on Life;” A Review of the Experiences of Nonhuman Animals Subject to Reproductive Violence and Coercion on Factory and Puppy Farms

Stacy Banwell and John Walliss

14. Which Animals Did Noah Eat?An Animal-Centric Focus on Food Crime

Matthew Robinson

Part V: THE IDEOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE OF PROFITABLE "A-IC-RELATED-VIOLENCE’"

15. Inside the Spanish Zoological Park Industry: Worker Insights on Human-Animal Relationships and Shared Vulnerabilities in Spain

Olatz Aranceta-Reboredo and Júlia Castellano

16. “If I Broke Down the Wall of Flesh": Blurring the Human/Animal Distinction in the Slaughterhouse through Ivano Ferrari’s Poetry"

Chiara Stefanoni

17. Embodying Non-Speciesism Through Altered States of Consciousness

Cindy Brooks Dollar

18. A Time to Kill: Cruelty and Compassion with Companion Animals and Urban Wildlife

Stephen L. Muzzatti and Kirsten L. Grieve

19. The Lennie Small Paradox: Loving Animals to Death

Michael D. Briscoe

Index

Biography

Gwen Hunnicutt is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She studies gender violence – its varieties, causes, consequences, interspecies entanglements, and politicizations. She is the author of Gender Violence in Ecofeminist Perspective.

Richard Twine is Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Human-Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University, UK. He is the author of The Climate Crisis and Other Animals (2024), Animals as Biotechnology – Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies (2010) and he co-edited (with Nik Taylor) The Rise of Critical Animal Studies – From the Margins to the Centre (2014). He has also published several articles on ecofeminism, vegan transition, the food system, and the animal-industrial complex.

Kenneth Mentor is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His published research includes peer-reviewed papers in the disciplines of criminology, organizational behavior, public administration, law and society, and online learning.

“Violence, of course, is not only found on the streets, in pubs and taverns, or in domestic/household settings. It is frequently directed at different types of nonhuman animals (NHAs). However, critical criminologists have not been fleet at foot in addressing this major world-wide problem. Thus, this ground-breaking anthology helps fill a major research gap. It is destined to become a classic that should be mandatory reading for all progressive criminologists concerned about the protection and preservation of NHAs.” - Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University

"The volume strikes the right balance between theoretical and applied content and showcases the impressive expertise of scholars across multiple disciplines and countries. This volume will be of interest to many, including (critical) animal studies scholars, ecofeminists, and political economists (to name but a few), and more generally, anyone interested in developing a future where human actions no longer threaten the species and environments around us." - Professor Amy Fitzgerald, University of Windsor