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Running Head: A SUMMARY OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY 1

Multispecies Ethnography

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Consider the Lobster

Interestingly, eating a lobster was considered pathetic until the 1800s (Wallace, 2005). It was compared to feeding on rats, and it was deemed to be cruel to feed lobsters to inmates more than once in a week. Today, it's an elegant, expensive delicacy. They grow by molting and can live for over a century weighing from 20 ponds (Wallace, 2005). It's cooked alive by putting it in a kettle of boiling water, but is it ethical to boil a creature alive for gustatory satisfaction? During the festivity, flower children issue guests with pamphlets saying that the lobsters died a painful death, and they should feed on them. Justifying the cruelty of boiling a live creature by saying that it is decentralized with no brain to experience pain is not valid. Once captured and put in cages, their claws are tied to keep them from attacking each other due to stress (Wallace, 2005); this proves that they are living creatures with the capacity to suffer. But should we consider their suffering when our interest is food? Also, humans are more important than animals, and we hold no morality in their suffering

The commodification of the Cow's Body

Humans relate to animals since they are a good source of food commodities. Globally, they are slaughtered and milked in a tune of billions (Kathryn, 2014). I can't entirely agree with the writer's idea that we should consider animals' lives by and treating them in a similar manner we treat humans. Animals are a good source of proteins in the human diet, and we should slaughter them for that. She considers the use of biotechnology as unethical, but its rationale is to maximize production and profitability. Calf raised for veal has triggered irony in the industry (Kathryn, 2014), but again its meat is precious and fetches more money than beef. There is an increase of bull semen trade internationally. Should we stop this business since its unethical? The value of a cow is in its capacity to produce milk or reproduction.

Interestingly, the author compares the udder's image to that of a large-breasted woman. Also, she compares the large testicles and penis of a bull to reminiscent images of an erection in the human male. According to (Kathryn, 2014), the company's symbol of Sam Semen is an image of a bull standing on its rear limbs carrying a case with an A.I symbol, which she doesn't consider a good thing. Ideally, that is marketing the company' s products. Finally, in a global economy, the cows should be utilized for their financial benefits.

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commodification of the animal body in Pacific Northwest US dairy production, Gender, Place &Culture, 21:10, 1321-1337, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2013.832665

Kathryn Gillespie (2014) Sexualized violence and the gendered

To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2013.832665

Wallace, D. F. (2005). Consider the lobster: And other essays. Hachette UK.