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"""Bringing Marxist and psychoanalytic insights to bear on the processes of meat production and consumption, Duncan's fascinating analysis uncovers a novel way of thinking about resisting the meat-commodity: not through prohibitive ethical or legal injunctions, but through recognition and transformation of the social relations and desires that ultimately render animals as Others to be commodified and consumed. This work is both an essential contribution and fundamental challenge to existing discussions in animal studies.""--Matthew Calarco, professor of philosophy, California State University, Fullerton"

"""We are regularly bombarded by texts about the horrors we inflict on animals, texts which emphasize the need for some kind of basic solidarity with animals, since we are all living species on our earth. Teddy Duncan does something long awaited here: he shifts the focus on meat as a commodity, on how our mistreatment of animals is emblematic of today's capitalism. In his approach which unites Marxism and psychoanalysis, all the fetishes and fantasies at work in our treatment of animals are clearly displayed. Nothing will remain the same after Duncan's book - all those who deal with the relationship between humans and animals but ignore capitalist reality will appear as what they are: ignorants who pass in silence over the key dimension of the problem. If Duncan's book will not become a classic, then we perhaps deserve to perish.""--Slavoj Zizeka ""Bringing Marxist and psychoanalytic insights to bear on the processes of meat production and consumption, Duncan's fascinating analysis uncovers a novel way of thinking about resisting the meat-commodity: not through prohibitive ethical or legal injunctions, but through recognition and transformation of the social relations and desires that ultimately render animals as Others to be commodified and consumed. This work is both an essential contribution and fundamental challenge to existing discussions in animal studies.""--Matthew Calarco, professor of philosophy, California State University, Fullerton"

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Teddy Duncan, Jr. is a professor at Valencia College in Orlando, Florida. His scholarly work on subjects such as literary theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and philosophy has been published in the International Journal of Zizek Studies, Between the Species, The Latin American Literary Review, and The Midwest Quarterly.

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