caa a22 4500 46789549X CHVBK 20180406152802.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00146-005-0009-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00146-005-0009-2 Warkentin Traci Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 109 HNES, 4700 Keele St, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Canada aut Dis/integrating animals: ethical dimensions of the genetic engineering of animals for human consumption [Elektronische Daten] [Traci Warkentin] Research at the intersections of feminism, biology and philosophy provides dynamic starting grounds for this discussion of genetic technologies and animals. With a focus on animal bodies, I will examine moral implications of the genetic engineering of "domesticated” animals—primarily pigs and chickens—for the purposes of human consumption. Concepts of natural and artificial, contamination and purity, integrity and fragmentation and mind and body will feature in the discussion. In this respect, Margaret Atwood's novel, Oryx and Crake, serves as a cogent medium for exploring these highly contentious practices and ideas as it provides hypothetical narratives of possibility. Moreover, it is used to highlight contemporary hegemonic assumptions and values in ways that make them visible. Particular attention is paid to issues of growing human organs in pigs for xenotransplantation (resulting, for Atwood, in "pigoons”) and the ultimate end of the intensive factory farming of chickens through the genetic engineering of ‘mindless' chicken tumours (or, as Atwood calls them, "ChickieNobs”). Integral to these philosophical considerations is the provocative question of the genetic modification of animal bodies as a means to end the suffering of domestic food animals. The ultimate implications of this question include an ongoing sensory and moral deprivation of human experience, potentially resulting in a future mechanomophosis, the extreme manifestation of an existing mechanomorphism. Springer-Verlag London Limited, 2005 Animal ethics nationallicence Genetic engineering nationallicence Mechanomorphosis nationallicence Oryx and Crake nationallicence Speculative/science fiction nationallicence Transgenic organisms nationallicence AI & SOCIETY Springer-Verlag 20/1(2006-01-01), 82-102 0951-5666 20:1<82 2006 20 146 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-005-0009-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-005-0009-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Warkentin Traci Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 109 HNES, 4700 Keele St, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- AI & SOCIETY Springer-Verlag 20/1(2006-01-01), 82-102 0951-5666 20:1<82 2006 20 146 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer