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Eating-Animals: The Rhetoric of Animals, Food, and the Environment

PWR 1VS - Spring 2013 - Instructor: Stanescu, V.
Last Updated: 10-Nov-2014

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A guide to resources for PWR 1VS: Eating-Animals: The Rhetoric of Animals, Food, and the Environment. Course topics include: what are the similar rhetorical strategies that both sides of the debate engage in, and secondly, what do our rhetorical strategies around eating animals, and particularly their relation to the environment, tell us about ourselves as a society?

Background/reference sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research-based argument

Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare / edited by Marc Bekoff ; foreword by Jane Goodall.
2nd ed. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, c2010.
Green Library » Information Center » HV4708 .E53 2010 V.1
Cultural encyclopedia of vegetarianism / Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz, editor.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.
Green Library » Information Center » TX392 .C85 2010
Earlier edition ONLINE.
Encyclopedia of environmental ethics and philosophy / J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, editors in chief.
Farmington Hills, MI : Macmillan Reference USA/Gale Cengage Learning, c2009.
Green Library » Information Center » GE42 .E533 2009 V.1
Encyclopedia of organic, sustainable, and local food / edited by Leslie A. Duram.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.
Green Library » Information Center » HD9005 .E645 2010
ALSO ONLINE.
The McDonaldization of society 5 / George Ritzer.
[5th ed.] Los Angles : Pine Forge Press, c2008.
Green Library » Social Sciences Resource Center » HM706 .R58 2008

Selected subject terms

For books and databases

Limit results by TOPIC, also try adding these terms to initial search: environmental aspects, health aspects, moral and ethical aspects

Selected books

Animal welfare in animal agriculture : husbandry, stewardship, and sustainability in animal production / edited by Wilson G. Pond, Fuller W. Bazer, and Bernard E. Rollin.
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2012.
Biology Library (Falconer) » Stacks » HV4757 .A55 2012
The face on your plate : the truth about food / Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
1st ed. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2009.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » TX371 .M37 2009
Prisoned chickens, poisoned eggs : an inside look at the modern poultry industry / Karen Davis.
Summertown, Tenn. : Book Pub. Co., c1996.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » SF487 .D27 1996
The real cost of cheap food / Michael Carolan.
London ; New York : Earthscan, 2011.
Green Library » Stacks » HD9000.5 .C258 2011
Righteous porkchop : finding a life and good food beyond factory farms / Nicolette Hahn Niman.
1st ed. New York, NY : Collins Living, c2009.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » TD930.2 .N56 2009

Selected databases

  • Academic Search Premier– “choose databases” to add: Agricola (agriculture), Alternative Press Index, Business Source Complete, Environment Index, GreenFile, Left Index
  • ISI Web of Knowledge – many science databases, including CABI: CAB Abstracts® and Global Health® (1910-present; agriculture +), also some social sciences
  • ProQuest Research Library - good general database, with options to add others

Selected websites