Youatt, R. (2012). “Power, Pain, and the Interspecies Politics of Foie Gras”. Political research quarterly , 65 (2), pp. 346-58.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912911398049
Abstract
This article examines the practices, logics, and politics of foie gras production and consumption. It argues that scholars need to rethink both pain and sentience to account for the fact that ducks are responsive, and not just reactive. Rather than using the capacities of animals to judge when power relations between species are acceptable, it suggests that scholars should start with the power relations themselves to account for how animal and human experiences are made.
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“For we do not and we can never feel another’s pain,….we can know the pain of the other by exactly direct perception (we can feel that they suffer) while at the same time we can also disregard the pain of the other. From Babette Babich – Words In Blood, Like Flowers chapter On Pain and Tragic Joy, section: Scientific Vivisection and the Feminization of Pain, p.137.
From Claude Bernard:
“the physiologist is not an ordinary man: he is the scientist possessed and absorbed by the scientific idea he pursues. He does not hear the cry of animals, he does not see the flowing of blood, he sees nothing but the idea and is aware of nothing but the organism that conceals from him the problem he is seeking to resolve.”
Al this being after Bernard cut the animal’s vocal cords so HE could not hear the animal cry in pain. His wife divorced him and led an animal anti-vivisectionist movement. (WIBLF Babich p. 141)
Babich is critiquing Nietzsche here in his Genealogy, tying vivisectionism to ignored pain in women, third world peoples, progress and assembly lines. She is a philosophy professor at Fordham and has written extensively on Nietzsche, Heidegger and Arendt.
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