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Bearing Witness

Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000)

Claas Kirchhelle


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This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the  world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines  triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a 
new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas Kirchhelle explores Harrison’s avant-garde  upbringing, Quakerism, and how animal welfare debates were linked to concerns about the wider ethical and environmental trajectories of post-war Britain. Breaking the myth of Harrison as a one-hit wonder, Kirchhelle reconstructs Harrison’s 46 years of campaigning and the rapid transformation of welfare politics and science during this time. Exacerbated by Harrison’s own actions, the decades after 1964 saw a polarisation of animal
politics, a professionalisation of British activism, and the rise of a new animal welfare science. Harrison’s belief in incremental reform allowed her to form ties to leading scientists but alienated her from more radical  campaigners. Many of her 1964 demands gradually became part of mainstream politics. However, farm animal welfare’s increasing marketisation has also led to a relative divorce from the wider agenda of social improvement that Harrison once bore witness to. This is the first book to cast light on the interlinked histories of British farm animal welfare activism, science, and legislation. Its unique scope allows it to go beyond existing accounts of modern British animal welfare and will be of interest to those interested in animal welfare, environmentalism, and the behavioural sciences.

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Author
Claas  Kirchhelle
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Collection
n.c
Publication date
2021-05-05
Pages
271 pages
Print ISBN
9783030627911
Language
English
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Defaut-Illustration Claas Kirchhelle
Claas Kirchhelle (DPhil, Oxon 2015) is a medical historian and Lecturer at University College Dublin, with a Wellcome Trust University Award. His award-winning research and public engagement (Back from the Dead - Demystifying Antibiotics 2016-2017; Typhoidland 2020-2022) explore the interconnected evolution of modern science, politics, and the environment. His previous publications include Pyrrhic Progress. The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production, which won the 2020 Turriano Prize.  

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