Animals as biotechnology: ethics, sustainability and critical animal studies

In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by the emergence of two contradictory trends within our approach to nonhuman animals: the biotechnological turn in animal sciences, which aims to increase the efficiency and profitability of meat and dairy production; and the emerging field of critical animal studies - mostly in the humanities and social sciences - which works to question the nature of our relations with other animals. The first part of the book focuse

Introduction : from the sciences of meat to critical animal studies -- Undomesticating the ethical -- Towards a critical bioethics -- Thinking across species in the ethics of "enhancement" -- Animal biotechnology and regulation -- Biopower and the biotechnological framing of the animal body -- Capitalizing on the molecular animal : beyond limits? -- Mobilizing the promise of sustainability -- Searching for the 'win-win'? Animal genomics and 'welfare' -- Conclusion : from the 'livestock' 'revolution' to a revolution in human-animal relations