Date of Award
2009
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Sociology and Anthropology
Keywords
Sociology, General.
Supervisor
Fitzgerald, Amy (Sociology & Anthropology)
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
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Abstract
This thesis examines the discourses of a variety of stakeholders regarding global climate change (GCC), assessing if and how they construct industrial animal agriculture as a risk, and if and how these discourses may have shifted since the release of the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Livestock's Long Shadow report. Using Ulrich Beck's concepts of risk society, risk conflicts and relations of definition, this thesis examines how various animal rights and welfare groups, environmental organizations, meat industry stakeholders, governmental agencies and newspapers in Canada, the U.S. and internationally, investigate and construct industrial animal agriculture as a risk, if at all, and how these definitions conflict. This research finds that while the problematization of animal agriculture's contribution to GCC has been acknowledged by a number of organizations, for the most part, it has not increased since the release of Livestock's Long Shadow.
Recommended Citation
Bristow, Elizabeth, "Global Climate Change and the Industrial Animal Agriculture Link: A Critical Discourse Analysis" (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 49.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/49