You Are What You Eat: Rationalising Factory Farms in Don LePan’s Animals
Abstract
Discusses the relationship between fiction and protests against the meat industry, arguing that literature 'can draw attention to the reality of how meat is produced, and transform our understanding of animals, acknowledging them as subjects whose suffering matters even if they are not subjects in precisely the same way as are humans.
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Published 1 June 2010 in Volume 25 No. 2. Subjects: Animal Studies.
Cite as: Vint, Sherryl. ‘You Are What You Eat: Rationalising Factory Farms in Don LePan’s Animals.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 2010, doi: 10.20314/als.af96aa6c5b.