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Hardcover Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse Book

ISBN: 1584656980

ISBN13: 9781584656982

Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse

Over the course of the nineteenth century, factory slaughterhouses replaced the hand-slaughter of livestock by individual butchers, who often performed this task in back rooms, letting blood run through streets. A wholly modern invention, the centralized municipal slaughterhouse was a political response to the public's increasing lack of tolerance for "dirty" butchering practices, corresponding to changing norms of social hygiene and fear of meat-borne...

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