'Few commodities are more hazardous': Australian live animal export, 1788-1880

Title: 'Few commodities are more hazardous': Australian live animal export, 1788-1880
Creator: Cushing, Nancy
Relation: Environment and History Vol. 24, Issue 4, p. 445-468
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734018X15137949591954
Publisher: White Horse Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2018
Description: Live animal export has a long history but it is rarely considered in the vigorous contemporary debates surrounding the practice. This article explores the origins, extent and nature of the trade in livestock, primarily sheep and cattle, conducted out of Britain's first Australian colony, New South Wales, between 1788 and 1880. Drawing upon contemporary accounts and official statistics related to the trade, it contributes to the literature on human-animal relations by exploring the experience of animals during live export and the effect of the trade on attitudes to meat consumption. By subjecting animals to long sea voyages for the purposes of breeding or consumption, live export in the colonial period laid the groundwork for the commodification of animals used for food and the industrialisation of meat production in the twentieth century.
Subject: live animal export; Australia; New Zealand; animal welfare; meat
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445297
Identifier: uon:42552
Identifier: ISSN:0967-3407
Language: eng
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