Harlet Esquivel-Marin
Harlet Esquivel-Marín received a grant from CAF for her study “Factory Farming and Animal Exploitation: A Green Criminological Analysis.”
This study examines factory farming and animal exploitation through the lens of green criminology. It investigates 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 explores 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.
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.
Harlet’s criminological approach to animal exploitation and factory farming is shared with Rimona Afana, a Romanian-Palestinian researcher and activist whose work explores the criminality of confinement in nonhuman animal captivity. Similarly, Selene Magnolia shares an interest in the investigation of factory farming, and uses photography to reveal the damaging effects that factory farming has on human health and wellbeing.