Violence and Harm in the Animal Industrial Complex

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.

List of Contributors

1. Towards Multi-Species Justice: Unveiling Violence and Exploitation in the Animal- Industrial Complex

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

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

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

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

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

7. Reexamining the Meatpacking-Methamphetamine Hypothesis

Part III: CULTURAL HEGEMONY OF ANIMAL CRUELTY COMMERCE

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

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

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

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

11. Horseracing as regulated cruelty: A nonhuman animal victimology perspective.

12. Non-human animals as property: what this means when companion animals are stolen

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.

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

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

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

17. Embodying Non-speciesism through Altered States of Consciousness

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

19. The Lennie Small Paradox: Loving Animals to Death

Index