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

博士论文研究：美国奶牛场的生物工业化和动物护理伦理的新兴概念

• 批准号: 1256532
• 负责人: Melissa Caldwell
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256532&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Bio; industrialization

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.

这个威斯康星奶农的人种学研究考察了新兴的生物技术和工业实践是如何改变伦理考虑的。由于基础设施、营养、激素和药物的干预，奶牛正在生产前所未有的牛奶，这些变化需要农民和奶牛之间新的日常互动。虽然奶农对他们在奶牛护理方面的专业知识感到自豪，但弥漫在乳制品行业的工业逻辑和市场压力在护理伦理和生产力驱动之间造成了紧张关系。这项实证研究将通过与奶农、兽医、乳制品工程师和4-H等儿童团体进行为期15个月的人种学研究来调查这些紧张关系。该项目的广泛影响包括博士论文和几篇文章，在专业会议上的公开讲座和演讲，在从事奶牛养殖动物护理问题的学者，行业专业人士和农民之间建立网络，以及对动物护理伦理政策工作的贡献。