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Do cows have agency? What does “agency” actually mean? And do technologies in dairy farms and sanctuaries limit or enhance cows’ agency?
Koen Kramer, animal ethicists answers these questions after doing multispecies ethnographic research on various dairy farms and a sanctuary. What did he find out? And how did his research influence his own perspective on dairy products?
We discuss these questions and many more topics in this episode of Lettuce Talk.
Koen also published his research in the scientific journal “animal”. You can read his paper here: Dairy farming technologies and the agency of cows – ScienceDirect
Last time, we talked about the history of industrialised animal farming and the history of animal feed. This time, we cover the influence of antibiotics on industrial farming. How did antibiotics contribute to industrial farming? Were people in the past …continue
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Last time, we talked about the history of industrialised animal farming and the history of animal feed. This time, we cover the influence of antibiotics on industrial farming. How did antibiotics contribute to industrial farming? Were people in the past …continue
Proudly brought to you by: 21 June 2025
Industrial large-scale animal farming is producing the vast majority of animal products in our supermarkets. But how did it emerge? And how is its emergence related to compound feed? Was there resistance to this development already in the past? And …continue
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