Abstract
This paper is a two-part project. First, I reject the analogous relationship between the Holocaust and slaughterhouses (found in the anti-meat novel The Lives of Animals) and cross-species analogical thinking entirely; instead, I opt for modes of analysis that can examine the specific circumstances of animals within slaughterhouses. Secondly, I assert that a socio-economic Marxist analysis is the best prism in which to recognize the suffering of pre-slaughter animals and the causation of their suffering (the ostensibly necessary circulation and production of the meat-commodity).
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Duncan, Teddy Jr.
(2024)
"Recognizing Exploitation and Rejecting Analogy: An Analysis of the Meat-Commodity,"
Between the Species:
Vol. 27:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol27/iss1/6