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

这项对威斯康星州奶农的人种学研究探讨了新兴的生物技术和工业实践如何改变伦理考虑。由于基础设施，营养，激素和药物干预，奶牛正在生产前所未有的牛奶量，这些变化需要农民和奶牛之间的新型日常互动。虽然奶农对他们在奶牛护理方面的专业知识感到自豪，但遍布乳制品行业的行业逻辑和市场压力在护理道德和生产力驱动力之间产生了紧张关系。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个月的民族志研究来调查这些紧张局势。该项目的更广泛影响包括一个博士学位。论文和几篇文章，公开讲座和专业会议上的演讲，在学者，行业专业人士和从事奶牛养殖中动物护理问题的农民之间建立网络，并为动物护理伦理的政策工作做出贡献。

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.