Man and beast: relations between farmers and animals

Speaker: Jocelyne Porcher, director of research, zootechnician and sociologist at INRA, author of “Vivre avec les animaux, une utopie pour le XXIème siècle” (Living with Animals, a utopia for the twenty-first century), Editions La Découverte, 2014

Since the nineteenth century, relations between farmers and animals have been caught in a process of industrialisation witch denatures and destroys them, and entails great risks, such as the disappearance of some species of domestic animal. However, since the inception of farming, affective and inter-subjective relations between farmers and animals have also led to attachment, respect and shared intelligence.

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