2 Exploring the roots of high milk consumption in Finland

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Towards a history of animal industries in the Nordic countries 1
4. Part I: The onset of animal industries
5. Introduction 23
6. 1 Multispecies mobilities and human belief in progress 25
7. 2 Exploring the roots of high milk consumption in Finland 45
8. 3 Knowledge in the service of profit: Pig fattening performance testing in the first half of the twentieth century 63
9. 4 Women who love chickens: Gender and interspecies care in Finnish small-scale egg farming guides 81
10. Part II: Increasing efficiency, intensifying problems
11. Introduction 101
12. 5 Counting down Baltic fish 103
13. 6 Reassembling agro-human orders: Antibiotics in animal agriculture, 1940s–2000s 115
14. 7 A conduit for value? More-than-human experiments with chicken metabolism and the Nordic diet 133
15. 8 Coming to terms with fish farming and fish consciousness 153
16. Part III: Meaning-making for consumption and human-animal relationships
17. Introduction 175
18. 9 Pernicious propaganda: The Norwegian Meat Information Office and its “politics of meat promotion” 177
19. 10 Classifying Finnish fish 195
20. 11 Happy cows? Unravelling contexts of Swedish farmed animals 213
21. 12 Swedish agriculture and farmed animals in social media 229
22. 13 Keeping dairy cattle: A matter of scale? 243
23. Epilogue 261
24. Authors and editors 265
25. Index 267