A Good Kill: Socio-Technical Organizations of Farm Animal Slaughter

Horsemeat in the culinary traditions of the Mishär Tatar diaspora in the eastern Baltic Sea region: cultural and historical aspects

“…Village traditions, religion, and horse slaughter A "good" kill of an animal varies according to culture, and it has different rules, codes, and ideologies as well as practical and material issues [25]. Mishär Tatars are traditionally Sunni Muslims.…”

Animal geographies II

“…Nevertheless, for a growing number of animal geographers and other social scientists (for farm animals, Buller, 2012bBuller, , 2013aHolloway and Morris, 2014;Johnston, 2013;Porcher and Lécrivain, 2012;Roe and Greenhough, 2014;for fish, Bear and Eden, 2011;Bull, 2011), they offer distinctively visceral, performative and affective opportunities for exploring co-presence and mutual becoming. Many such studies incorporate the intermediating role of technological and scientific dispositifs in the nature-techno-culture assemblies that characterize the modern farm (for example, Higgin et al, 2011;Holloway and Morris, 2012;Holloway et al, 2013;Law and Lien, 2013). Others (e.g.…”

Carceral Space: Prisoners and Animals

“…Controlled containment and controlled mobility are integral to the functioning of the execution chamber and the slaughterhouse as well (Gillespie ). Slaughterhouses are equipped with an array of chutes, pens, ramps, and technological equipment intended to efficiently and quickly move animals for processing; in addition to the stun gun described above are mobile shackle lines, electric prods, hoists, and mechanical restraining pens (Higgin et al ). After being shot in the forehead and whether still alive and sentient, the cow is hung on a conveyer by a back leg and subsequently loses each of its body parts, its tail, its hooves, its hide, its head, its liver, one by one.…”

“…Patterson (:110–131) argues that industrialized “killing centers” have several things in common—their technologies, speed, efficiency, and “rational” Taylor‐esque assembly line techniques (also see Glick ; Higgin et al :175). Their procedures require routine, mechanical, repetitive, and “programmed” tasks, taking bodies through similarly choreographed spaces.…”

“…One difference we might observe between the slaughterhouse and the prison execution chamber though (cf. Higgin et al ) is in timings . Animals are killed and processed as quickly as possible in the slaughterhouse, but the slow, tick‐tocking passage of time experienced during the “death watch” is a torture unto itself for the condemned prisoner (see, for example, Vickers above).…”