Adam has been a Masters Student in the department since Fall of 2009. He is a Teaching Assistant.

Education Background

Curriculum Vitae

Biographical Information

Adam’s philosophical projects were born from the death of a cow. As he watched a documentary in which an unnamed cow, who in the process of being slaughtered, gazed at him through the television screen, he was forced to confront his own identity, privilege, and ignorance. Ashamed of his unwitting participation in this unnecessary and devastating system called “factory farming,” he dedicated himself to informing himself and others of the injustices people participate in everyday as well as exploring the philosophical discourse used to justify them. 

As an undergraduate student at Beloit College, he founded and directed an environmental club on campus (H.E.A.L.T.H.), held the position of food committee chair, interned at an animal protection organization, and did an independent study of Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry’s disturbance to Australian rainforests. After receiving a Service Honors Term Award in 2007, he developed and facilitated the Eco-Literacy Project, a ten-week place-based environmental education program for children in the community of Beloit, WI. In the summer of 2008, he interned at Farm Sanctuary, giving educational tours about CAFOs and the rescued residents. Since the fall of 2008, he has been maintaining a web resource and blog on the intersections of oppression in the production, distribution, and consumption of “food.” 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Presently, my research interests include critical human-animal studies, ecological feminism, food politics, environmental justice, social and political philosophy, ecological and agricultural ethics. 

Within my primary research project, provisionally titled “The Irony of Humanism,” I intend to show how the construction and distribution of privileged human Being corresponds with the production, distribution, and consumption of “meat” and “the animal.” This project includes:

Suggested Links, Publications, & Other Data

Adam’s Blogs

• HEALTH (Humans, Earth, and Animals Living Together Harmoniously)
• Zoophobia
• Facebook

Favorite animal/food blogs

• The Vegan Ideal
• Vegans of Color
• Animal Voices (radio)
• Critical Animal

• Sociological images
• Guardian: Environment: Food
• Ethicurean 
  

Favorite Organizations:

• Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment
• Environmental Justice Foundation
• Food First
• The Green Belt Movement
• Women's Environment & Development Organization
• United Farm Workers
• Veganic Agriculture Network 
  

Essential Readings:

• “All Animals Are Equal”
• “Introduction” to What is an Animal?
• “Introduction” to Animal Rites

• “12 Myths about Hunger”
• “The Pleasure of the Flesh”
• “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler”
• “Spoiled: Local and Organic is So 2008”
• “The Freegan’s Creed: Waste Not, Want Not”
• “The ‘Food Justice’ Movement: Trying to Break the Food Chains”
• “Food Miles and the Relative Climate Impact of Food Choices in the United States”
• “Consolidation in the North American Organic Food Processing Sector, 1997 to 2007”

• Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry
• Livestock’s Long Shadow
• Eating Up the Amazon
• Blood, Sweat, and Fear
• ADA’s Position Paper on Vegetarian Diets