Summary
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Through fieldwork, this author explores how the emotions of workers and animals are minimized or denied in an Irish slaughterhouse. The author points to the dominance of masculine ideals in the slaughterhouse as the suppressor of emotions. When emotions are muted, a barrier remains between human and “nonhuman animals”, reinforcing the notion that animals are “sellable, killable, and edible”. However, categorizing the world through the lens of masculinity and edibility is disrupted when emotions inevitably erupt.
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