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English
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The Blood of Every Beast : Mormonism and the Question of the Animal
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Summer 2010 ,|v.43
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no.2
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87-117
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"In this article, I try to contribute to just such a reconsideration by placing several key LDS doctrines and historical events in dialogue with some of the central questions that subtend the growing interdisciplinary field of animal studies. Both theoretically rich and ethically challenging, the best work being done in animal studies offers ways of thinking about human-animal relationships that powerfully unsettle speciesist assumptions even as they carefully historicize and analyze the lived complexities of these relationships. While it is probably too early to hope for a First Presidency letter calling for a boycott on factory-farmed meat or announcing a new Church fund to support research in conservation biology, taking a close look at animal studies can at least help Mormon scholars place our religion's traditional concern for animals in a broader historical and cultural context. And finally, it is my hope that this article will help us theorize ways to work toward a future in which 'the enmity of all flesh' (D&C 101:26) shall cease."