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Essay: Optimizing Pigs
Summary
Optimizing Pigs
The high-efficiency logic behind concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) has gone viral in our culture.
Essay and photos by KC McGinnis for PloughAs an Iowa photojournalist, I photograph a lot of agriculture stories. After reflecting on my experiences photographing concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), I realized that these facilities exist because of a particular understanding of human and animal nature. In this essay, I wrote about how popular trends in "self-optimization" show that the logic of factory farming that is widespread in our society.
Optimizing Pigs
The high-efficiency logic behind concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) has gone viral in our culture.
Essay and photos by KC McGinnis for PloughAs an Iowa photojournalist, I photograph a lot of agriculture stories. After reflecting on my experiences photographing concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), I realized that these facilities exist because of a particular understanding of human and animal nature. In this essay, I wrote about how popular trends in "self-optimization" show that the logic of factory farming that is widespread in our society.
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