Acknowledgments; 1. Food Animals: More Than a "Walking Larder"?; 2. Domestication to Industry: The Commercialization of Human-Livestock Relations; 3. Women and Livestock: The Gendered Nature of Food-Animal Production; 4. "Price Discovery": Marketing and Valuing Livestock; 5. "The Good Life": Hobby Farmers and Rare Breeds of Livestock; 6. Sentient Commodities: The Ambiguous Status of Livestock; 7. Affinities and Aloofness: The Pragmatic Nature of Producer-Livestock Relations; 8. Livestock/Deadstock: Managing the Transition from Life to Death
Summary
How humans think and feel about their work handling food animals
