What Would Rachel Say?

by Bernard Unti May 18, 2007
It was Christine Stevens of the Animal Welfare Institute who encouraged Rachel Carson to pen the foreword for Ruth Harrison's "Animal Machines" (1964), a landmark critique of the intensive confinement methods that developed within post-World War II animal agriculture. It was apt that Carson be the one to provide the foreword, for Harrison's book, like Carson's own, drew strong connections between practices that hurt animals and their negative consequences for people.

The two authors had more in common than this conceptual framework, however. Harrison, who lacked Carson's professional background, would experience the same kinds of gender-based attacks that characterized reactions to "Silent Spring." And like "Silent Spring," "Animal Machines" provoked more than just public outrage.   Read more:
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