Lynn Marie Houston Food Safety and the Abject: Mad Cow Disease and a Racist Rhetoric of Contamination in the Southwest In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, discourse on sexuality . . . claimed to ensure the physical vigor and the moral cleanliness of the social body; it promised to eliminate defective individuals, degenerate and bastardized populations. In the name of a biological and historical urgency, it justified the racisms of the state, which at the time were on the horizon. It grounded them in âtruth.â âMichel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Capital punishment would not be maintained except by invoking less the enormity of the crime itself than the monstrosity of the criminal, his incorrigibility, and the safeguard of society. One had the right to kill those who represented a kind of biological danger to others. âMichel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), developed out of a meat industry practice designed to increase production by making it easier and cheaper to fatten cattle and therefore easier and cheaper for some segments of the industry to make more money. To cut production costs, waste from the
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Food Safety and the Abject: Mad Cow Disease and a Racist Rhetoric of Contamination in the Southwest
Houston, Lynn Marie
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, Volume 107 (2)
Duke University Press – Apr 1, 2008
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