Episode 19: Cows' Agency and Technology w/Koen Kramer

Do cows have agency? What does "agency" actually mean? And do technologies in dairy farms and sanctuaries limit or enhance cows' agency? Koen Kramer, animal ethicists answers these questions after doing multispecies ethnographic research on various dairy farms and a sanctuary. What did he find out? And how did his research influence his own perspective on dairy products? We discuss these questions and many more topics in this episode of Lettuce Talk.Koen also published his research in the scientific journal "animal". You can read his paper here: Dairy farming technologies and the agency of cows - ScienceDirect