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It IS about Chicken: Chick-fil-A, Posthumanist Intersectionality, and Gastro-Aesthetic Pedagogy
In this article, Bradley D. Rowe discusses the controversy over comments by Dan Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A (a fast food company based in the U.S.), who in 2012 made public statements supporting "traditional" marriage. Rowe uses the debate as a springboard into a discussion of intersectionality, posthumanism, and gastro-aesthetics, weaving together multiple threads of thought to imagine a way that the incident could have been approached from a non-speciesist intersectional perspective. Rowe hopes that his analysis will encourage reflection on the numerous "hierarchies of domination" that make up an issue like the Chick-fil-A controversy, and allow for multiple layers of interrogation, with the aim to "demonstrate that the plight of nonhumans is not a second-rate subdivision of critical theory or social activism." READ MORE

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Cruel Nature: Harmfulness As An Important, Overlooked Dimension in Judgments of Moral Standing
In this study, researchers conducted a series of surveys to try to better understand the role of "harmfulness" in how humans perceive moral standing, especially with animals. Working from the hypothesis that animals who are perceived to have a "harmful disposition" are accorded a lower moral standing - in the same way that humans who are seen as inherently harmful are accorded less moral standing - the researchers considered different angles to better understand why such moral inconsistencies might exist. The results go beyond the usual discussions of moral agency and patiency, and shed light on an often overlooked aspect of how humans do their moral calculus.  READ MORE

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Profiling Consumers Who Are Ready to Adopt Insects as a Meat Substitute in a Western Society
This study from Belgium examines the likelihood of Western consumers to eat insects as a "meat substitute," as well as the barriers that might prevent them from doing so. Respondents were asked a series of questions related to both regular meat consumption and insect consumption, and gave their opinions on whether they would eat bugs for reasons of nutrition and sustainability, or not at all. The results of the study show that while traditional meat eaters aren't very likely to start eating mealworms as part of their diet, there is a more "adventurous" demographic that would put bugs on the table. READ MORE

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Toward a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies
This paper presents a strong case for "Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies," a field of scholarship that recognizes the importance of human and nonhuman animal milk as materials through which various types of political and economic power relationships are enacted. READ MORE

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Should Protections for Research With Humans Who Cannot Consent Apply to Research With Nonhuman Primates?
This paper considers how and why current protections for research with humans who cannot consent (such as children and those with severe dementia) can apply to nonhuman primates. Navigating the slippery and often contentious questions around moral significance of nonhuman animals, the author gives compelling examples of research projects where using nonhuman primates would be clearly unacceptable. These are then used as a baseline for determining a general principle that "individuals who are unable to consent should be enrolled in nonbeneficial research only when, at the very least, there is sufficient reason to believe that the potential benefits of the research justify the risks it poses." Though the author does not make claims around what might constitute justifiable benefits, he does offer interesting possibilities for how nonhuman primates can assent / dissent from particular research, even if they cannot officially "consent." READ MORE
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