Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every contact who assisted me during my period of fieldwork and interviews. Without their time and contributions, this book would not have been possible. I also thank the Carnegie Trust for awarding a Carnegie Scholarship. I am grateful to many colleagues at the University of Aberdeen for their interest and support, especially Bernadette Hayes and Debra Gimlin; I am particularly indebted to Steve Bruce for taking the time to read and comment on draft chapters. I thank Janet Francendese of Temple University Press and Clinton Sanders for their insightful feedback on an earlier version of the manuscript. For all of this support, I am most grateful. I also thank family and friends for being there when I needed them, especially Alistair and Fiona Wilkie, Kim Wilkie, Lesley Tidmarsh, Alastair Matthewson, Cath Pilley, Sandra Nicoll, and John and Triinu Humphrey. Finally, I express my sincerest gratitude to Colin Carroll. I appreciate his patience and words of encouragement much more than he will ever know. Livestock/Deadstock ...