a-animality, 108, 141n2

abattoirSee also slaughterhouse, 52, 109, 136, 136

abjection, 24, 64, 66–67, 74, 128

animal happiness, 144, 149, 152, 161, 163, 168–173, 175, 179–180, 183

animal welfare, 51, 53, 83n14, 117–118, 122, 126, 145, 152–153, 155–160, 172, 180–181

Acampora, Ralph, 2–3, 5–7, 24, 34, 51, 94, 96, 107–108, 112–116, 141n3, 145–146, 163, 165, 167, 169

Agamben, Giorgio, 8, 10, 18, 39–41, 105n7, 107–109, 134–138, 142, 145, 165–166, 183

a-humanity, 41, 108, 141n1

ambiguity, 2, 5–7, 15, 20–21, 24, 29, 50, 52, 57–59, 77, 125, 175, 181, 183–184

ambivalence, 1–2, 4, 20–21, 27, 34, 51–52, 57–59, 71–72

animal studies, 35–36

Anthropology, 13–16, 35–37, 158

Bacon, Francis, 3, 7, 12, 29, 34, 53n1, 96, 109–110, 116, 149, 161

bare lifeSee also zoe, 8, 10–12, 40–41, 51–52, 107–109, 135–139, 163, 165, 172, 183

bios, 133, 135, 138, 183

Black, Jack, 21–22, 69, 84–85n23

Bourdieu, Pierre, 172, 176

boredom, human capacity for, 38, 40, 142n12

Bubonic plague, 22–23, 65, 69, 73, 134

cagednessSee also incarceration, 112, 147, 163

calculus

of care, 12, 142n7, 149–153, 174, 180

of death 12, 100, 150–153, 160, 179–180

of war , 96–97, 182

capital, symbolic, 172–174

capitalism, 33, 54n13

captivation, mindless, 38, 40

Cartesian human-animal divideSee also Descartes, 3, 34, 37, 47, 55, 118, 132, 142n6, 153, 176

chickens

batterySee also eggs, cage, 10, 12, 12, 165–167, 172, 180

free rangeSee also eggs, free range, 11–12, 53n2, 112, 166, 171, 175

collinearity, 5, 92–93, 181

Darwin, Charles, 34, 118–119, 128, 140, 156

Derrrida, Jacques, 42–43, 74, 109, 129, 132, 136, 142n6, 175

Descartes, ReneSee also Cartesian human-animal divide, 116, 155

detachment, 3, 50, 95, 107–108, 113, 115–116, 119, 121, 141n3, 151