Catherine Oliver

Sep 24, 2024 | thehollow.substack.com | Dixie Dillon Lane |Ruth Gaskovski |Nadya Williams |Catherine Oliver

(First, a quick note: please consider joining me and for a free, live Zoom on homeschooling and teaching history this Saturday, September 28. Check out the details and access the link here. All subscribers are welcome!)I was so happy to be asked recently to do this interview update for the Arena at Current. Here, asks about my book project, how daily life, homeschooling, and work mesh for me as a historian and a mother of four, and what I make of the recent media alarmism about homeschooling.

Jun 25, 2024 | transformingsociety.co.uk | Catherine Oliver

If the way we eat now is bad for our health, bad for animal welfare and bad for the planet, is veganism the answer? That’s the key question that Catherine Oliver of Lancaster University pursues in the latest addition to the What is it for? series. In this episode of the podcast, Catherine tells George Miller why she hopes What is Veganism For?

Jun 25, 2024 | bristoluniversitypress.co.uk | Bristol Press |Catherine Oliver

Description Across the world, an increasing number of people are turning to veganism, changing not just their diets, but completely removing animal products from their lives. For some, this is prompted by concerns over animal ethics; for others, it’s a response to the part played by animal agriculture in the climate crisis or an attempt to improve their own health.

Jun 10, 2024 | rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Catherine Oliver

1 INTRODUCTION The chicken has transformed the world repeatedly (Lawler, 2016). Today, they are the most populous bird on the planet, with their biomass outweighing three times over the combined biomass of all wild species birds (Bennett et al., 2018). While the majority of these chickens are born and raised in intensive agricultural systems – often living just 8 weeks before slaughter for meat birds and less than 18 months as laying hens – their presence is also resurging in Western cities.

Jun 2, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Catherine Oliver

Much has been made of contemporary chickens. Their growth rates are increasing year on year (Jaap, 2007) and these accelerated chickens are central to the production of cheap food. For Patel and Moore (2017) the chicken nugget can be seen as a sign of the Anthropocene era. Chickens have been part of the industrialization and expansion of a nutrition transition rooted, according to Otter (2021), in a British appetite for meat.