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abjection, 104
ableism, 150–151, 154–155
abolitionism, 154–155, 197
absent referent, 104
academic hospitality: about, 13–14
dietary practices influenced by, 27–28, 139
as source of tension for dietary practices, 32, 109–110, 120–121, 136–137, 167–168, 186
academic institutions: moral prescriptions for, 120, 124
as “university in crisis,” 123–125, 157–159
academic work: advocacy in, 47–49
production of novelty in, 26
with recipe inclusions, 123. See also personal practices—academic work intersections
teaching
accountability, and community, 213–214
activism: for disability rights, 148, 151–152
political, 171, 209–210. See also animal rights activism
Adams, Carol, 104, 105, 197
affect theory, 178–182, 186–187
African Americanist discourse, animals in, 214–216, 217
Against Ecological Sovereignty (Smith), 27
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (Shotwell), 236–237
agriculture: about, 2–3
agricultural power and, 223–231
animals as property and, 224, 225, 228–229
locavorism, 226–227
political context for, 160–162
Steeves on, 10, 119–120
Taylor on, 153. See also labeling foods, as ethical and unethical
Ahmed, Sara, 187
Ahuja, Neel, 157–171
about, 157
on academia, 157–159
on academic hospitality, 13, 167–168
academic influences for, 159–160
academic work-personal practices intersections of, 11, 166–167, 170–171
on animal rights activism, 165–166, 171
on animal studies and food genealogy intersection, 162–163
Bioinsecurities, 170
on capitalism and food production, 10
dietary practice influences for, 12, 160–161, 165, 166–167
dietary practices as source of tension for, 167–168
dietary practices of, 7–8, 164–165
on foodie cultures, 167
on geopolitics of food, 169–170
on Hindu nationalism, 169–170
on political activism, 171
on politicalization of animals, 160–162, 163–164
on postcolonialism, 158–159
on posthumanism, 4–5, 159–160
on veganism and politics, 6, 160–162, 166–167, 169–171
Allen, Chad, 133
animal–human relationships. See human—animal relationships
animal rescue, 11, 76, 176–177, 179–180, 182, 186–187
animal rights activism: about, 11–13
Ahuja on, 165–166, 171
cognitive ethology and, 40–41
Corman on, 37, 38, 44–52
critical animal studies and, 47–49, 75–76
Dave on, 71–72, 78–79
Deckha on, 87
disability rights activism and, 148, 151–152
Indigenous peoples’ marginalization through, 8, 13, 48–49, 51, 64, 141–142, 233–240
interviewee selection and, 4, 6
posthumanism on, 26–27, 44–45
Taylor on, 146–147
veganism as expression of, 155–156
Weaver on, 173, 175, 176–178, 180, 187
Wolfe on, 20–22, 23, 27, 33–34
Animal Rites (Wolfe), 24
animals, as food: about, 1–2, 5–6, 9
absent referent and, 104
Ahuja on, 161–162, 164–165, 168
and animalization, 105, 151
Calarco on, 192–193, 194–195
Corman on, 49–53
Dave on, 76–78, 79
deading and de-animalization, 225–226
Deckha on, 93–94, 97–98
feminist studies on, 104–105
García on, 136–138, 141
Haraway on, 1, 29–30, 64, 107, 143–144
Holland on, 213, 217–218
horse meat, 101–102, 106, 107–108
humane meat, 110, 152–153, 224
humanism on, 3
oppression and, 150–151
paradox of, 8–9 (see also paradox and purity, of eating)
posthumanism on, 2
Steeves on, 116, 121
Stockton on, 6
TallBear on, 60–63
Taylor on, 152–153
Weaver on, 182–184
Weil on, 106–107, 111
Wolfe on, 27–31
animals, as property: about, 90–91
agricultural power of, 224, 225, 228–229
alternatives to, 50–51, 228–229
beingness and, 91–92, 229
animals, oppression of, 11, 40–41, 43–44, 148, 150–153, 164, 202–203
animal studies: about, 2
black analyses of, 216–217
Calarco on, 197
cognitive ethology intersection with, 41–42, 136
disability studies intersection with, 146
dog training as, 32–33
food genealogy and, 162–163
García on, 130–131, 136
philosophy intersections with, 190
post-colonialism intersection with, 132–133, 159–160
Wolfe on, 21. See also critical animal studies
Animal Voices (Corman’s radio show), 39–40, 42–43, 47, 48–49
anthropocentrism, 5, 33, 44, 195, 236–237
anthropomorphism, 126–127
anti-anthropocentrism, 26, 202–203, 229, 239
anti-essentialism, 92–93, 98, 130, 140
anti-Muslim violence, 11, 72–73, 161, 169
Arnaquq-Baril, Alethea, 239
Beasts of Burden (Taylor), 146–147, 152
Becoming in Kind (Weaver), 187
Before the Law (Wolfe), 30
“being in relation,” 12, 60, 65, 66–67
beingness, 91–92, 229
“being prey.” See hunting and “being prey”
Bekoff, Marc, 40, 47
Belcourt, Billy-Ray, 5, 8
Berlant, Lauren, 187
Bioinsecurities (Ahuja), 170
black and brown masculinities, 12
black jockey tradition, 214–215, 217
blogging, 218–219, 220
The Bluest Eye (Morrison), 214
Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 178
breedism, 187
breed-specific legislation (BSL), 175, 176
Breeze Harper, Amy, 141, 182
Bryant, Taimie, 45
Bully Bloggers website, 6
Butler, Judith, 174–175, 235
Calarco, Matthew, 188–203
about, 188–189
academic trajectory of, 190–191
academic work–personal practices intersections of, 195–196
on animal oppression, 202–203
on critical animal studies, 191–192, 198–199, 201–202
dietary practice influences for, 12, 192–193, 194–196
dietary practices of, 7–8, 192–193
on food studies, 201–202
further pursuits of, 198–199
on identity politics and indistinction, 4, 9, 188, 193–194, 197–201
on interspecies companionship, 196–197
on logic of contiguity, 8, 193–194
Thinking Through Animals, 196
Campt, Tina M., 239
cannibalism, 9, 61, 65, 224
capitalism: academic institutions, 123–124
colonialism and, 2, 164
conscious consumerism and, 3, 10, 16n9
ethical eating and, 121–122
food production and, 10 (see also industrial agriculture); “university in crisis” and, 157–159
Cecil (lion), 6, 177–178
cheese. See milk and dairy products
Chinese medicine, 183
Cixous, Hélène, 104
Clifford, Jim, 58
Coetzee, J. M., 7, 102, 106
cognitive ethology, 40–42, 136
colonialism: in academia, 158–159
of animal rescues, 11, 177, 179–180, 186–187
on big-game hunting vs. veganism, 6
capitalism and, 2, 164
critical animal studies and, 5
of foodie cultures, 11
Indigenous people and, 233–236
of small-scale agriculture, 183–184, 224–225, 227–228
veganism and, 97–98
community, accountability and, 213–214
companion animals. See interspecies companionship
The Compassionate Carnivore (Friend), 227
conscious consumerism, 3, 10, 16n9. See also labeling foods, as ethical and unethical
consistency, tyranny of. See tyranny of consistency
constitutive impurity, 237
contiguity, logic of, 8, 193–194
contradictions, and tyranny of consistency, 74–75
cooking: activism and, 171, 212
collective nature of, 10–11, 171, 173, 174, 186, 208–209, 212
disability and, 149–150
family and, 101, 137, 139, 205, 208, 225
love of, 182, 205
of meat, 137, 217
of vegan food, 64, 87, 107, 168, 171, 186
Corman, Lauren, 36–53
about, 36–37
academic trajectory of, 37–39, 41–42
academic work purpose of, 39–41, 42–43
on advocacy in academia, 47–49
on animals as property, 50–51, 228
on critical animal studies, 42–44
dietary practice influences for, 12–13, 38
dietary practices of, 7–8, 49–53
on posthumanism, 44–45
radio show (Animal Voices), 39–40, 42–43, 47, 48–49
“The Ventriloquist’s Burden,” 44–45
on voice appropriation of animals, 39, 42–43, 46–47
corporatization, of the university, 157–159
Costello, Elizabeth, 107
cow-protection movement, 8, 74–75, 165, 170
Crenshaw, Kimberlé, 177
critical animal studies (CAS): activism and, 47–49, 75–76
Calarco on, 191–192, 198–199, 201–202
Corman on, 41–44
development of, 38–39, 41, 42, 48, 191–192
and food studies intersection, 201–202
intersectionality and, 75–76
limitations of, 5
materialist approach to, 48–49, 60, 65–66
posthumanism on, 42, 44–45
TallBear on, 58–59, 199
“total liberation” notion in, 52
Custer Died for Your Sins (Deloria), 56
dairy industry. See milk and dairy products Das, Veena, 235, 238
Dave, Naisargi, 68–83
about, 68–70
academic work–personal practices intersections of, 11, 76–78
academic work purpose of, 70–71
on animal rights activism, 71–72, 78–79
on animals as food, 76–78, 79
dietary practice influences for, 12, 13, 77–78
dietary practices as source of tension for, 14, 80–81
dietary practices of, 7–8, 76–77
on food procurement, 81–82
further pursuits of, 83
on Hindu nationalism, 168–169
on intersectionality, 75–76
on moral prescriptions, 82–83
on social change and resistance, 72–73
on tyranny of consistency, 8, 74–75, 77–78, 239–240
de-animalization and deading, of animals, 225–226
Deckha, Maneesha, 84–98
about, 84–89
academic work–personal practices intersections of, 89–90, 95–96
academic work purpose of, 89–90, 92
on beingness, 91–92, 229
dietary practice influences for, 86–87, 95–96
dietary practices as source of tension for, 14, 93, 96–97
dietary practices of, 7–8, 93–94
on ethical eating, 94–95, 96–97
on food procurement, 94–95
further pursuits of, 92–93
on parenting and veganism, 14, 94, 95–96
teaching philosophy of, 90–92
on veganism, 97–98
DeGeneres, Ellen, 236, 237–238
de la Bellacasa, Maria Puig, 174
Deloria, Vine, Jr., 56
Derrida, Jacques: on animals, 31, 33, 103, 105, 197–198
“Eating Well,” 28–29
on ethics, 25
on violence, 28–29
Despret, Vinciane, 27, 180, 186
dietary practice influences: about, 7–8, 12–13
academic work as, 2
for Ahuja, 12, 160–161, 165, 166–167
for Calarco, 12, 192–193, 194–196
for Corman, 12–13, 38
for Dave, 12, 13, 77–78
for Deckha, 86–87, 95–96
feasibility and, 52, 61, 182
for García, 132, 137
personal and professional relationships as, 13
for Steeves, 115–116
for TallBear, 61–62
for Taylor, 144, 146–148
for Weaver, 13, 185–186
for Weil, 13, 107–108
for Wolfe, 12, 19, 20–21
dietary practices: of Ahuja, 7–8, 164–165
of Calarco, 7–8, 192–193
of Corman, 7–8, 49–53
of Dave, 7–8, 76–77
of Deckha, 7–8, 93–94
of García, 7–8, 136–138
Hindu nationalism on, 8, 71–73, 81, 97–98, 161, 164–165
of Holland, 212–213, 217–218
identity politics and, 106
of India, 71–73, 81, 98, 161–163, 164–165, 168–170
political context for, 160–162
of Steeves, 115–117
of TallBear, 60–61
of Taylor, 7–8, 147–148, 149–150, 154–156
of Weaver, 182–184
of Weil, 106–107
dietary practices as source of tension: about, 14
for Ahuja, 167–168
for Dave, 14, 80–81
for Deckha, 14, 93, 96–97
for García, 14, 139–141
hospitality and, 27–28
for Steeves, 120–121
for TallBear, 62
for Taylor, 155
for Weaver, 186
for Weil, 109–110
for Wolfe, 14, 31–32
disabilities and disability studies, 4, 15, 144, 146, 148–152
Disgrace (Coetzee), 102
dogs: as companions, 33–34, 58–60, 104, 113, 211–212
euthanasia and, 102
food and, 184–185
Indigenous communities and, 59, 132
perspectives of, 33, 109
rescue and, 179–180
as service animals, 154
Shining Path and, 134
training and, 9, 32–33, 180–82, 185. See also abolitionism
animal rescue
pit bull politics
Donaldson, Brianne, 199
Donovan, Josephine, 105, 197
Douglas, Mary, 104
Douglass, Frederick, 216
The Dreaded Comparison (Spiegel), 175
Eating Animals (Safran Foer), 2, 80, 119, 139, 147–148
eco-feminist theory, 92–93, 98
eggs: agricultural power and, 226
Ahuja on, 168
Calarco on, 193
Steeves on, 116–117
Taylor on, 147–148
Weil on, 110
Wolfe, Cary, 30
embodiment, 12, 100–101, 173, 174–175, 190–191
environmentalism, 226–227
environmental pollution, 144, 145
environmental racism, 11, 117, 153, 199–201
ethical eating: about, 2–3, 9
capitalism and, 121–122
conscious consumerism and, 3, 10, 16n9 (see also conscious consumerism)
Deckha on, 94–95, 96–97
García on, 139–140, 141–142
geopolitics of, 162–163
Haraway on, 29–30
indistinction as framework for, 199–201
interviewee selection and, 7
locavorism and, 226–227
ontology and, 29–31, 125–127
oppressiveness of, 62
posthumanism on, 4–5
Steeves on, 116–117, 118–119
as utopic vision, 4–5
as veganism, 60–61, 63–64
veganism as, 63–64, 76–78, 79
Weaver on, 183
Weil on, 106–107
Wolfe on, 23, 28–31. See also labeling foods, as ethical and unethical
paradox and purity, of eating
Every Twelve Seconds (Pachirat), 183
exceptionalism, 74
expression, of animals, 202–203
factory farms. See industrial agriculture
families. See parenting and families
Fear of the Animal Planet (Hribal), 202
Feenberg, Andrew, 189
feminist animal care tradition, 92–93, 98
Feminists for Animal Rights, 165
feminist studies: about, 4
on animals as food, 104–105
Calarco on, 197
eco-feminist theory, 92–93, 98
Holland on, 209–211
and postcolonialism intersections, 92–93, 98, 132–133, 159–160
on trans embodiment, 174–175
fish and seafood, as food: García on, 137, 141
Stockton on, 6
TallBear on, 61
Weil on, 107, 111
Wolfe on, 27–28, 30–31
flesh, indistinction and, 200–201
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 2
food, ethics of. See ethical eating
foodie cultures, 10–11, 167, 226–227
food procurement and shopping: about, 10, 13–14
Dave on, 81–82
Deckha on, 94–95
Holland on, 213, 217–218, 224, 226
Steeves on, 121–122
TallBear on, 10, 61, 62–63, 224
Weaver on, 224
Weil on, 10, 110–111, 224–225
Wolfe on, 28. See also academic hospitality
labeling foods, as ethical and unethical
food studies, 162–163, 201–202, 224, 229
Four Paws, Five Directions (Schwartz), 184–185
Franke, Katherine, 88
Freccero, Carla, 156
French feminism, 103, 104–105
Friend, Catherine, 227
Gaard, Greta, 96
Gandhi, Mahatma, 162–163
Gandhi, Maneka, 169
García, María Elena, 128–142
about, 128–130
academic trajectory of, 130–132
academic work–personal practices intersections of, 11, 132, 138
on animal-human relations, 131–132, 133–134, 136
on animal studies, 130–131, 136
dietary practice influences of, 132, 137
dietary practices as source of tension for, 14, 139–141
dietary practices of, 7–8, 136–138
on food procurement, 141
on human–animal relationships, 134–136
on Indigenous veganism, 138–140
on interspecies companionship, 131
on “killing as care,” 141–142, 239
on post-colonialism and animal studies intersection, 132–133
teaching philosophy of, 131–132
gender transformations, 12, 100–101, 173, 174–175, 178–182
Gender Trouble (Butler), 174
The Genealogy of Morality (Nietzsche), 189
geopolitics: of agriculture, 162–163
of dietary practices, 168–170
of veganism, 182–183
“government of species,” 159–160
Graeber, David, 83
Green Is the New Red (Potter), 49
grocery shopping. See food procurement and shopping
Gruen, Lori, 177–178
Guenther, Lisa, 225
Guha, Ranajit, 162
guinea pigs, 134–136, 137
Hadot, Pierre, 195
Haraway, Donna: on animals as food, 1, 29–30, 64, 107, 143–144
Calarco on, 196
collective cooking with, 11, 173, 186
Corman on, 44
Holland on, 218–219
on human–animal relationships, 159–160
Manifestly Haraway project, 24
on multispecies justice, 177
on paradox and purity, 238
personal and professional connections to, 7, 24, 32, 58–59, 173–174
Posthumanities writings of, 24, 27
TallBear on, 58–59
When Species Meet, 44
Harris, Cheryl, 90–91
Harris, Sylvia, 215
Hearne, Vicki, 105, 218–219
The Hidden Life of Dogs (Marshall), 34
Hinduism, 14, 71–72, 85, 93, 98
Hindu nationalism: 8, 11, 71–73, 74–75, 81, 161, 169–170
Hit by a Farm (Friend), 227
Holland, Sharon, 204–220
about, 204–206, 220
academic work purpose of, 213–214
activism of, 209–210
on animals in African Americanist discourse, 214–216
on black analyses in animal studies, 216–217
on blogging, 218–219, 220
on collective cooking, 10, 208–209, 212
dietary practices of, 212–213, 217–218
education of, 206–211
equestrian pursuits of, 206, 214–216
on ethical actions, 219–220
on food procurement, 213, 217–218, 224, 226
on interspecies companionship, 206, 211–212, 214–216, 218, 219
horse-human relationship, 111, 214–216, 217, 218, 219
hospitality. See academic hospitality
Hribal, Jason, 202
Huffington Post, on seal hunting, 238–239
human–animal relationships: about, 2–3, 9
Ahuja on, 160–162
Corman on, 52–53
Dave on, 74–76, 78–79
Deckha on, 90, 93
frameworks for addressing, 4, 12–13
García on, 131–132, 133–134, 136
Haraway on, 159–160
Hinduism nationalism on, 71–73
Holland on, 214–217
horse-human relationship, 111, 214–216, 217, 218, 219
Indigenous people on, 11, 13, 52–53, 65–67, 199, 224, 233–239
Steeves on, 116–117
TallBear on, 58–59, 66–67
Taylor on, 150–151, 154–155
Weil on, 104–105, 111. See also hunting and “being prey”
identity politics
interspecies companionship
humane meat, 110, 152–153, 224
humanism: animal rights activism and, 45
on animals as food, 3
posthumanism on, 26–27
Hunters and Bureaucrats (Nadasdy), 61
hunting and “being prey”: about, 8–9
as alternative to animals as property, 51
Corman on, 51
paradox and purity of, 239
seal hunting paradox and, 8, 48–49, 234–236, 238–239
TallBear on, 8–9, 61, 64–65, 224
identity politics: Calarco on, 4, 9, 188, 193–194, 197–201
dietary practices and, 106
García on, 129–130
of veganism and vegetarianism, 77–78, 193–194
Weil on, 106
India: animal encounters in, 71
dietary practices of, 11, 71–73, 81, 93, 98, 161–163, 164–165, 167–170
immigrants from, 68–69, 84–85, 161
postcolonialism in, 162
queer activism in, 75–76, 169
Westerners view of, 71–72. See also Hinduism
Indigenous people: genetic mapping of, 57
on human–animal relationships, 4, 52–53, 65–67, 132, 134–136, 199, 224, 233–239
on interspecies companionship, 59–60, 199
marginalization of, 8, 13, 48–49, 51, 64, 139, 141–142, 233–240
subjectivity and, 39, 229, 236, 237–238
veganism and, 52–53, 138–140
violence against, 11, 129, 134. See also García, María Elena
TallBear, Kim
indistinction, and identity politics, 4, 9, 188, 193–194, 197–201
industrial agriculture: about, 2–3, 10
animals, as property in, 228–229
Calarco on, 192–193
labor studies of, 39
politics of, 160–161
Safran Foer on, 147–148
veganism and, 60–61
Weil on, 107
Institute for Critical Animal Studies, 192, 201–202
intersectional animal studies, 5, 38–41, 43, 75–76, 93, 133, 186–187
interspecies companionship: about, 9, 11
Calarco on, 196–197
Corman on, 37
frameworks for addressing, 12
García on, 131
Holland on, 206, 211–212, 214–216, 218, 219
horses, 111, 214–216, 217, 218, 219
human–animal perspectives and, 32–34
Indigenous people on, 59–60, 199
Steeves on, 113–114, 126
TallBear on, 59–60, 199
Taylor on, 154, 156
trans-affective politics and, 178–182
Weaver on, 184–185
Weil on, 105–106, 111
Wolfe on, 32–34
interspecies ethics, 11, 175, 176–178, 180, 186–187
interviews: about, 1–3, 5–6, 15, 143–144
on academic hospitality, 13–14 (see also academic hospitality)
on academic work–personal practices intersections, 11–12 (see also personal practices–academic work intersections)
on animal rights activism, 12–13 (see also animal rights activism)
on collective cooking, 10–11, 173, 174, 186, 208–209, 212
on colonialism, 5 (see also colonialism)
on companion animals, 9 (see also interspecies companionship)
on conscious consumerism, 3, 10, 16n9
on dietary preferences, as source of tension, 14 (see also dietary practices as source of tension)
on dietary preferences and practices, 7–8 (see also dietary practice influences)
on disabilities, 2, 4, 12, 15 (see also disabilities and disability studies)
on foodie cultures, 10–11, 167, 226–227
Haraway connections in, 7, 24, 32, 58–59, 173–174
on human–animal relationships, 12–13 (see also human–animal relationships)
interviewee selection, 3–7
interviewers for, 7, 8
on intimate and professional relationships, 13
on labeling foods as ethical and unethical, 9–10 (see also labeling foods, as ethical and unethical); methods, 7–15
on paradox and purity, of dietary choices, 8–9 (see also paradox and purity, of eating)
on parenting and veganism, 14–15 (see also parenting and families)
on posthumanism, 4–5 (see also posthumanism)
on race dynamics, 5
Inuits, 8, 233–240
Irigaray, Luce, 104
Karp, Lila, 209, 210
Karpf, Nina, 70
Kheel, Marti, 197
“killing as care,” 8, 141–142, 239
Kim, Claire Jean, 11, 133, 156, 182, 187
King, Samantha, 118–119
Kristeva, Julia, 104
Kunuk, Zacharias, 239
labeling foods, as ethical and unethical: about, 9–10
agricultural power and, 224–225
Deckha on, 94–95
geopolitics of, 168
humane meat, 110, 152–153, 224
locavorism and, 226–227
TallBear on, 63
Taylor on, 148, 152–153
Weil on, 10, 110–111
labor practices and studies, 2, 39, 63, 139, 141, 183, 224, 225
Lavin, Chad, 2, 4, 200
Levinas, Emmanuel, 198, 202
life trajectories, nonhuman, 12, 59–60
Lives of Animals (Coetzee), 102
locavorism, 226–227
logic of contiguity, for veganism, 8, 193–194
Lorde, Audra, 210
Luhmann, Niklas, 26
Making Mice (Rader), 130–131
Manifestly Haraway project, 24
materialist approach: Ahuja on, 163–164
of critical animal studies, 48–49, 60, 65–66
Haraway on, 159
Steeves on, 119–120
Matthews, Dan, 234–235, 236, 237–238
McConnell, Patricia, 180–181, 186
McHugh, Susan, 187
McKittrick, Katherine, 4
meat and meat products. See animals, as food
meditation, 82–83
milk and dairy products: agricultural power and, 226
Ahuja on, 168
Calarco on, 193
Corman on, 51
Dave on, 77
Deckha on, 95–96
Gandhi on, 163
García on, 137
Hindu nationalists on, 81
Taylor on, 148
Weaver on, 183, 186
Weil on, 107, 109–110, 111
Wolfe on, 30. See also animals, as food
Montford, Kelly Struthers, 2, 223
Mooallem, Jon, 3
Moore, Jason, 164
moral prescriptions: avoidance of, 25, 78, 79, 82–83
of critical animal studies, 191–192
as framework for ethical arguments, 73, 117
“killing as care” as, 141–142
for universities, 120, 124
veganism and, 63–64, 109–110
Morrison, Toni, 214
motherhood. See parenting and families
Mowat, Farley, 180
multispecies justice, 177–178, 185–186
multispecies studies, 2–3, 4–6, 59–60, 103–104, 144, 199
Nadasdy, Paul, 61
Nedelsky, Jennifer, 88
Nibert, David, 42
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 189
nonhuman–human relationships. See human–animal relationships
nonhuman life trajectories, 12, 59–60
omnivores. See animals, as food
Omnivore’s Dilemma (Pollan), 152
ontology: agricultural power and, 224, 225, 228
ethics of, 29–31, 125–127
interspecies companionship and, 196–197
need for plural ontologies, 199
resistance and, 202
TallBear on, 224
veganism and, 224, 228–229
oppression: of animals, 11, 40–41, 43–44, 148, 150–153, 164, 202–203
of people, 37–38, 90, 92–93, 148, 150–153, 154, 181, 184
Pachirat, Timothy, 183
Palmer, Walter, 6
paradox and purity, of eating, 233–241
about, 8–9, 233, 235–236
anthropocentrism and, 236–237
compromises and, 107
defined, 237
dogma and, 237–238
as framework for ethical arguments, 240
for Hindus, 71–73
for Indigenous people, 8, 48–49, 233–239
“killing as care,” 8, 141–142, 239
tyranny of consistency and, 8, 74–75, 77–78, 239–240
veganism and, 13, 63–64, 76–77, 110
Wolfe on, 28–29
parenting and families: about, 14–15;
Deckha on, 94, 95–96
as source of tension for dietary practices, 31, 80
vegetarianism and veganism and, 14–15, 94, 95–96, 139–140, 153–154
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), 8, 166, 233–236
personal practices–academic work intersections: about, 11–12
of Ahuja, 11, 166–167, 170–171
of Calarco, 195–196
Corman on, 49–50
Dave on, 11, 76–78
Deckha on, 89–90, 95–96
García on, 11, 132, 138
Steeves on, 117–118
Taylor on, 11–12, 146–147, 148–149
Weaver on, 185–186
Weil on, 106–108
Wolfe on, 34–35
Peruvians, 11, 129–130, 133–136, 137
pets. See interspecies companionship
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), 165–166
pit bull politics, 12, 175, 176–177, 180, 186–187
and race, 175–176, 185–186, 216–217
plants, ethics of eating, 117, 184, 199–201, 237
political eating, 160–162
Pollan, Michael, 80, 82, 152
postcolonialism: about, 4, 93
Ahuja on, 158–159
animals studies intersection with, 132–133, 159–160
dairy industry and, 96
and feminist science studies intersection, 92–93, 98, 132–133, 159–160
García on, 132–133
in India, 162
posthumanism: about, 2, 4–5
Ahuja on, 4–5, 159–160
animal rights activism and, 26–27, 44–45
on critical animal studies, 42, 44–45
as framework for ethical arguments, 9, 19, 24, 25–27, 34–35
on human–animal relationships, 4
on race dynamics, 2
on sexual orientation dynamics, 2
TallBear on, 66
Weil on, 5, 108–109
Wolfe on, 9, 19, 24, 25–27, 33–35
Posthumanities series, 24, 25–26, 27
Potter, Will, 49
Povinelli, Elizabeth, 238
The Predicament of Culture (Clifford), 58
property, animals as. See animals, as property
purity and paradox. See paradox and purity, of eating
queer activism, in India, 75–76, 169
queer theory: about, 21
Dave on, 69, 79, 82, 83
Holland on, 209, 211
on trans embodiment, 174–175
Weaver on, 174–175, 176
race, 2, 5–6
racism: Deckha on, 85, 86
García on, 133;
Holland on, 211, 213–216, 219–220
property and, 90–92
and slavery, 182, 216
Steeves on, 119
Weaver on, 183–184
Weil on, 102–103. See also colonialism
environmental racism; whiteness
Rader, Karen, 130–131
radio show (Animal Voices by Corman), 39–40, 42–43, 47, 48–49
Regan, Tom, 25, 197, 198
relational personhood, 4, 12, 65–66, 224, 229
relationships. See human–animal relationships
interspecies companionship
Robertson, Jennifer, 70
Robinson, Margaret, 52
rocks, ethics for, 117
Russo, Richard, 178
Safran Foer, Jonathan, 80, 106, 119, 139, 147–148
Schwartz, Cheryl, 184–185
Scott, Craig, 88
seafood. See fish and seafood, as food
seal hunting paradox, 8, 48–49, 234–239
Seldin, Tim, 214
settler-colonialism. See colonialism
shellfish. See fish and seafood, as food
She’s Not There (Boylan), 178
shopping for food. See food procurement and shopping
Shorter, David, 67
Shotwell, Alexis, 6, 236–237
Siegal, Reva, 88
similarity approach, 4, 45, 105–106, 197
Singer, Peter, 25, 151–152, 163, 197
slaughterhouses, 3, 39, 78–79, 202, 226–227. See also industrial agriculture
small-scale agriculture
small-scale agriculture: animals, as property in, 224, 225, 228–229
colonialism of, 183–184, 224–225, 227–228
environmental impact of, 226–227
ethical eating and, 2
Holland on, 217–218
Weaver on, 183–184
Weil on, 107
Smith, Mick, 27
Smuts, Barbara, 40
society–nature relationships, 159–160
Sorenson, John, 43
speciation and speciesism, 4, 59, 163–164, 176
Spiegel, Marjorie, 175
Stanescu, James, 225
Stanescu, Vasile, 227
Steeves, H. Peter, 112–127
about, 112–114
on academic hospitality, 13–14, 120–121
academic trajectory of, 114–115
academic work–personal practices intersections of, 117–118
on agricultural power, 10, 119–120
dietary practice influences of, 115–116
dietary practices as source of tension for, 120–121
dietary practices of, 115–117
on ethical eating, 116–117, 118–119
on food procurement, 121–122
further pursuits of, 123–125
on human–animal relationships, 116–117
on interspecies companionship, 113–114, 126
on ontology, 125–127
on recipe inclusion in academic work, 123
Stockton, Will, 6
Subaltern Studies Collective, 162
subjectivity: beingness and, 91–92, 229
colonial, 5
dietary, 5, 51–52
humanism and, 26–27
Indigenous people and, 39, 229, 236, 237–238
indistinction and, 198
intersectional analysis of, 39–41
voice appropriation and, 46–47
Tagaq, Tanya, 8, 233–236, 238, 239
TallBear, Kim, 54–67
about, 54–56
academic trajectory of, 56–58
on animals, as food, 60–63
on “being in relation,” 12, 66–67
on critical animal studies, 58–59, 199
dietary practice influences of, 61–62
dietary practices as source of tension for, 62
dietary practices of, 60–61
education of, 56–57
on food procurement, 10, 61, 62–63, 224
on Haraway, 63–64
on hunting and “being prey,” 8–9, 61–62, 63, 64–65, 224
on interspecies companionship, 59–60, 199
on marginalization of Indigenous people, 13, 238
Native American DNA, 56
Pipestone Relations, 65, 66–67
on political consciousness, 56
on posthumanism, 66
Taussig, Michael, 211
taxonomy. See ontology
Taylor, Chloe, 64–65
Taylor, Sunaura, 143–156
about, 143, 144–145
academic work–personal practices intersections of, 11–12, 146–147, 148–149
animal activism of, 146–147
on animal rights and disability rights intersection, 151–152
Beasts of Burden, 146–147, 152
dietary practice influences of, 144, 146–148
dietary practices as source of tension for, 155
dietary practices of, 7–8, 147–148, 149–150, 154–156
on disabilities and disability studies, 144, 146, 149–150
on environmental pollution, 144, 145
on interspecies companionship, 154, 156
on labeling foods as ethical, 148, 152–153
on oppression, 150–151
on veganism and animal rights activism intersection, 155–156
on veganism and parenting, 14–15, 153–154
teaching: Corman, 41, 42–44, 48–49, 50
Deckha, 90–92
García, 130–132
Weil, 102–103, 105, 106
Wolfe, 23–25, 29, 32
Thinking Animals (Weil), 102, 108
Thinking Through Animals (Calarco), 196
Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, 34
Todd, Zoe S., 238
Tohono O’odham land pollution, 144, 145
Tongson, Karen, 6
The Tracks of My Tears (Weaver), 178
trans embodiment, 12, 100–101, 173, 174–175
trans species and trans affective politics, 178–182
Tungijuq (Tagaq & Kunuk), 239
tyranny of consistency, 8, 74–75, 77–78, 239–240
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 226
universities. See academic hospitality
academic institutions
academic work
veganism: as alternative to animals as property, 50–51
Calarco on, 193–196, 201–202
capitalism and, 10
as contextual and ontological, 228–229
Corman on, 50–53, 228
dairy industry as influence on, 95–96
Dave on, 80–81
Deckha on, 97–98
disability studies intersection with, 149–150
as ethical eating, 63–64, 76–78, 79
as exclusionary choice, 98
feasibility and, 52, 61, 182
geopolitics of, 182–183
Hindu nationalism on, 72, 81, 161
identity politics and, 77–78, 193–194
in India, 72, 81, 163, 168, 169–170
Indigenous people’s insight into, 52–53, 138–140
interviewees with dietary practice of, 7–8
in Israel, 182–183
paradox and purity of, 13, 63–64, 76–77, 110
parenting and, 14–15, 94, 95–96, 139–140, 153–154
politics of, 6–7, 97–98, 138, 155–156, 160–162, 166–167, 169–171
tyranny of consistency for adoption of, 8, 74–75, 77–78
vegetarian conversion stories: about, 2, 12–13
of Ahuja, 161, 164–165
of Calarco, 192–193
of Corman, 38
of Deckha, 86–87
of Holland, 207
to omnivorism, 182–183, 217
of Safran Foer, 139
of Steeves, 115–116, 118–119
of Taylor, 147
to veganism, 14
of Weil, 106
of Wolfe, 27–28
vegetarianism: digestive dissonance in literature on, 3
eco-feminist theory and, 92–93, 98
as ethical commitment, 127
Hindu nationalism on, 11, 71–72, 81
as an identity, 193–194
in India, 11, 71–72, 81, 93, 98, 167–170
parenting and, 94
tyranny of consistency and, 74
to veganism, 146
and whiteness, 61
violence: Ahuja on, 164, 170–171
against animals, 4, 8, 28–29, 51, 131–132, 164, 170–171, 194, 195, 230
Calarco on, 194, 195, 196–197, 200
Deckha on, 92, 95–96, 98
digestive dissonance and, 3
ethical frameworks for, 9
García on, 129–130, 131–132, 133–134
against Indigenous people, 11, 129, 134
interspecies companionship and, 196–197
political, 11, 72–73, 81, 129–130, 133–134
postcolonialism and, 133
vivisection, 12–13, 38, 165, 166
voice appropriation, 39, 42–43, 46–49, 202–203
Ware, Celestine, 209
Weaver, Harlan, 172–187
about, 172–173
academic purpose of, 174–176
academic work–personal practices intersections of, 185–186
on animal activism, 173, 175, 176–178, 180, 187
Becoming in Kind, 187
on collective cooking, 10–11, 173, 174, 186
dietary practice influences of, 13, 185–186
dietary practices as source of tension for, 186
dietary practices of, 182–184
on food procurement, 224
on Haraway, 173–174, 177
on interspecies companionship, 184–185
on interspecies intersectionalities, 175, 176–178, 180, 186–187
TallBear on, 64
The Tracks of My Tears, 178
on trans embodiment, 12, 173, 174–175
on trans species and trans affective politics, 178–182
Weheliye, Alexander, 4
Weil, Kari, 99–111
about, 99–100
academic influences of, 104–105
academic trajectory of, 100–103
academic work–personal practices intersections of, 106–108
dietary practice influences of, 13, 107–108
dietary practices as source of tension for, 109–110
dietary practices of, 106–107
on food procurement, 10, 110–111, 224–225
on human–animal relationships, 104–105, 111
on identity politics, 106
on interspecies companionship, 105–106, 111
on multispecies living, 103–104
on posthumanism, 5, 108–109
teaching philosophy of, 102–103, 106
Thinking Animals, 102, 108
Weiss, Erica, 182
What Is Posthumanism? (Wolfe), 27, 33
When Species Meet (Haraway), 44
White Hat, Albert, 66
whiteness: 45, 87, 90, 177, 179–180, 184, 234
and privilege, 172–173
and racism, 85
and rescue, 187
and the South, 22
and universalism, 5
veganism and, 52, 141
white supremacy and, 254, 189
and “white trash,” 175
women and, 46. See also colonialism
race
Whiteness as Property (Harris), 90–91
Williams, Jeffrey, 1
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 103
Wolfe, Cary, 19–35
about, 19–22
on academic teaching, 23–24, 32
academic work–personal practices intersections of, 34–35
academic work purpose of, 23–24
animal activism of, 20–22, 23, 27, 33–34
Animal Rites, 24
on animals as food, 27–31
animal studies development by, 21
Before the Law, 30
Corman on, 45
dietary practice influences of, 12, 19, 20–21
on dietary practices as source of tension for, 14, 31–32
dietary practices of, 19, 27–30
education of, 20
on ethical eating, 23, 28–31
on food procurement, 28
on interspecies companionship, 32–34
Manifestly Haraway project, 24
on posthumanism, 9, 19, 24, 25–27, 33–35
as Posthumanities series’
editor, 24, 25–26, 27
on the South (U.S.), 22
teaching philosophy of, 23–24, 32
What Is Posthumanism? 27, 33
Wood, David, 29
Wynter, Sylvia, 4
Zami (Lorde), 210