“Of Many Fights” : cows, cowboys, and meat production in southern United States.

"De muchas luchas" : vacas, vaqueros y el proceso de producción de carne al sur de los Estados Unidos.

In this text, I will trace some encounters happening throughout a process of premium quality bovine meat in Southern United States. By attending material, discursive, and affective encounters given they make bodies this work looks at cattle production, where rather than a set of practices directed toward meat production, it is glimpsed as a collection of touches, frictions and breakups. In this line, a set of reflections are put forward on how animal life and death is made up through contemporary productive processes.

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