A Yale senior whom I taught last Spring published an essay in #edgeeffects today based on a paper she developed in our class. Check it out! https://edgeeffects.net/electrified-farming-poultry/
"Electricity reshaped the poultry industry over the 20th century. Zoe Robertson asks what the costs of this transformation were for birds and inter-species relations.."
#envhist #animalhist #histtech #energyhist #animalwelfare #histodons
How Electrified Farming Transformed Poultry Production in the U.S.
Electricity reshaped the chicken and turkey farming over the 20th century. What are the costs for birds and inter-species relations?
"In the space between earth & sky, there will always be resistance," said the duck. "Wind, waves; the world howls back. But inhabit the edge. Find shelter in it: a space to lookout from, within. A howling universe, an impossible orbit. But then: this grass left uncut, that wing."
