This month, we got to speak with Chaz Yingling and Andrew Kettler about their forthcoming book The Once and the Future Cow: Agency, Appetite, and the Anthropocene. The book’s aim is to show an understudied history of the cow not just in the American West, but on the islands in the Caribbean.

Episode recorded December 11, 2025.  CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

For more on Yingling and Kettler:

Yingling Website: https://www.chazyingling.com/

Kettler Email: smellhistory@gmail.com

Kettler Academic Profile: https://andrewkettler.academia.edu/

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