Table of Contents

Introduction: From the Sciences of Meat to Critical Animal Studies

Part I: The Animal and the Ethical

1. Undomesticating the Ethical

2. Toward a Critical Bioethics

3. Thinking across Species in the Ethics of 'Enhancement'

Part II: Capitalizing on Animals

4. Animal Biotechnology and Regulation

5. Biopower and the Biotechnological Framing of the Animal Body

6. Capitalizing on the Molecular Animal: Beyond Limits?

Part III: Capturing Sustainability in the Genome

7. Mobilizing the Promise of Sustainability

8. Searching for the 'Win-Win'? Animal Genomics and 'Welfare'

Conclusion: From the 'Livestock' 'Revolution' to a Revolution in Human/Animal Relations

About the Author

Richard Twine is a Senior Research Associate at Cesagen (ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics), Lancaster University, UK.

Reviews

'Twine's Animals as Biotechnology adds a much needed perspective to debates surrounding animal life, ethics, capitalism, and emerging animal biotechnologies. Combining cutting-edge interdisciplinary frameworks from critical animal studies with in-depth analyses of the economics and science behind the increasing commodification and production of animals for human consumption, Twine makes a compelling case for the development of a more generous, less anthropocentric approach in our myriad relations with the other-than-human world.' Dr. Matthew Calarco, Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University at Fullerton, Author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida 'Richard Twine weaves deftly between 'molecularisation' of animals in biotechnology and growing sensibilities about human-animal relationships. Tensions between these opposing strands raise many questions about what animal science can promise, and - importantly - about implications for sustainability and how we treat other animals who share this earth. Rethinking relationships with other animals is critical for all our futures.' Professor Lynda Birke, University of Chester, UK