Doctoral Dissertation Research: Bio-industrialization and Emerging Notions of Animal-Care Ethics in America's Dairyland

这项针对威斯康星州奶农的民族志研究考察了新兴生物技术和工业实践如何改变伦理考量。由于基础设施、营养、激素和药物干预，奶牛正在产生前所未有的数量的牛奶，这些变化需要农民和他们的奶牛之间进行新的日常互动。虽然奶农为他们在奶牛护理方面的专业知识感到自豪，但乳制品行业普遍存在的行业逻辑和市场压力造成了护理道德和生产力驱动之间的紧张关系。这项实证研究将通过对奶农、兽医、乳品工程师和儿童团体(如4-H)进行为期15个月的人种学研究来调查这些紧张关系。该项目的更广泛影响包括一篇博士论文和几篇文章、公开讲座和在专业会议上的演讲、在学者、行业专业人士和致力于奶牛养殖场动物护理问题的农民之间建立网络，以及对动物护理伦理政策工作的贡献。

This ethnographic study of Wisconsin dairy farmers examines how emerging biotechnologies and industrial practices are changing ethical considerations. Cows are producing unprecedented amounts of milk due to infrastructural, nutritional, hormonal, and pharmaceutical interventions and these changes entail new kinds of daily interactions between farmers and their cows. While dairy farmers take pride in their expertise in cow care, the industrial logics and market pressures that pervade the dairy industry create tensions between ethics of care and drives for productivity. This empirical study will investigate these tensions through fifteen months of ethnographic research with dairy farmers, veterinarians, dairy engineers, and children's groups such as 4-H. The broader impacts of this project include a Ph.D. dissertation and several articles, public lectures and presentations at professional conferences, the creation of networks among scholars, industry professionals, and farmers who are working on issues pertaining to animal care in dairy farming, and contributions to policy work on animal care ethics.