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Humanity and Inhumanity

Humanity and Inhumanity ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT / June 2004 York / HUMANITY AND INHUMANITY 10.1177/1086026604264878REVIEW Toward a Sociology of the Slaughterhouse RICHARD YORK University of Oregon Charles Patterson. Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holo- caust. New York: Lantern Books, 2002. Steven M. Wise. Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2002. Cary Wolfe (Ed.). Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. In his plea for a land ethic, Aldo Leopold (1949/1970) retold the story of Odys- seus, on his return from Troy, hanging a dozen slave girls of his household for sus- pected misbehavior. Leopold noted, This hanging involved no question of propriety. The girls were property. The dis- posal of property was then, as now, a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong. (p. 237) Leopold was, of course, concerned with the absence of consideration for wild nature in our ethical systems and our treatment of land as mere property. We no lon- ger find it acceptable to treat humans as property, at least in such a flagrant manner as in Odysseus’s time, but other living creatures remain governed by the dictates of expediency rather http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Humanity and Inhumanity

York, Richard
Organization & Environment , Volume 17 (2): 6 – Jun 1, 2004
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT / June 2004 York / HUMANITY AND INHUMANITY 10.1177/1086026604264878REVIEW Toward a Sociology of the Slaughterhouse RICHARD YORK University of Oregon Charles Patterson. Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holo- caust. New York: Lantern Books, 2002. Steven M. Wise. Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 2002. Cary Wolfe (Ed.). Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. In his plea for a land ethic, Aldo Leopold (1949/1970) retold the story of Odys- seus, on his return from Troy, hanging a dozen slave girls of his household for sus- pected misbehavior. Leopold noted, This hanging involved no question of propriety. The girls were property. The dis- posal of property was then, as now, a matter of expediency, not of right and wrong. (p. 237) Leopold was, of course, concerned with the absence of consideration for wild nature in our ethical systems and our treatment of land as mere property. We no lon- ger find it acceptable to treat humans as property, at least in such a flagrant manner as in Odysseus’s time, but other living creatures remain governed by the dictates of expediency rather

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