As a system of profit based on reproduction, growth, and eating, animal husbandry offers an ideal place to examine how capitalism shapes knowledge of bodies. Recent work on the history of breeding demonstrates this, showing how new markets in “blood” helped define new theories of heredity and race. This essay expands on this literature by examining eighteenth-century British efforts to control a different aspect of animal reproduction: desire. Spurred by changing meat markets in out-of-season lamb and expanding property structures that created sex-segregated herds, shepherds, farmers, and agricultural writers worked to provoke the seasonally dependent desires of ewes by feeding them aphrodisiac foods, changing the ways that sex was staged, and creating landscapes of “artificial” grass timed to help ewes escape the constraints of the seasons. Their efforts draw our attention to a broader range of bodily experts, from physicians, to professional feeders, to Linnaean botanists, who were interested in the ways that landscapes could be made to shape bodies. The essay suggests that these forms of environmental control, which still undergird capitalist farming, have left significant modern traces on both knowledge and landscapes and offer a rich and relatively untapped source of bodily knowledge.

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喂养欲望：1700-1750 年英国的生成环境、肉类市场和绵羊交配管理

作为一种基于繁殖、生长和饮食的利润系统，畜牧业提供了一个理想的场所来研究资本主义如何塑造身体知识。最近关于育种历史的工作证明了这一点，展示了“血液”中的新市场如何帮助定义新的遗传和种族理论。这篇文章通过考察 18 世纪英国控制动物繁殖的不同方面的努力来扩展这些文献：欲望。在反季节羊肉的肉类市场变化和扩大财产结构的刺激下，产生了性别隔离的牧群、牧羊人、农民和农业作家，通过给母羊喂春药来激发它们季节性依赖的欲望，改变性行为的方式上演了“人造”草的景观，以帮助母羊摆脱季节的束缚。他们的努力使我们注意到更广泛的身体专家，从医生到专业饲养员，再到林奈植物学家，他们对利用景观塑造身体的方式感兴趣。这篇文章表明，这些仍然支撑着资本主义农业的环境控制形式在知识和景观上都留下了重要的现代痕迹，并提供了丰富且相对未开发的身体知识来源。