Nancy Harlet Esquivel-Marín
Nancy Harlet Esquivel-Marín received a grant from CAF for her study “Factory Farming and Animal Exploitation: A Green Criminological Analysis.”
The grant supported Nancy in examining industrial livestock farming through green criminology, with fieldwork in Yucatán. The project produced three manuscripts: “Sentience Denied: A Green Criminological Analysis of Factory Farming”; “Beyond Anthropocentric Metrics: A Green Criminological Framework for Post-2030 Multispecies Justice,” prepared for Nature Sustainability; and “Porcine Production Chain in Mexico: Analysis of Externalities and Animal Welfare via the Criminological Colorimeter,” prepared for the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy.
In 2026. Nancy co-authored a commentary in Animal Sentience 38(12) entitled “Why Do We Need to Prove That Pigs Feel?”
Nancy investigated the detrimental impacts on animals, the environment, and society by considering factory farming as a form of crime against both animals and Nature. The research explored the underlying causes of animal exploitation: encompassing economic, political, and social factors that perpetuate these practices, and aims to challenge the normalization of these practices and propose more ethical and sustainable alternatives for food production.
Nancy Harlet Esquivel-Marín is a Doctor in Science in Agroindustrial Economic Problems at Centro de Investigaciones Económicas Sociales y Tecnológicas de la Agroindustria y la Agricultura Mundial, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Texcoco, México.
