Happy Cows,' 'Happy Beef
A Critique of the Rationales for Ethical Meat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5012239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karyn Pilgrim (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-127 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2201-1919 • E-ISSN: 2201-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/22011919-3611257 |
| OpenAlex | W2184757222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 19 |
The ethical food movement signals a significant transformation of cultural consciousness in its recognition of the intimate politics of what we eat and what kind of socio-political systems we sustain. The recent resurgence of economic localization exemplifies a grass roots attempt to undermine the hegemony of transnational corporations and build ecologically and economically sustainable communities. Social justice plays a key role in the guiding philosophies of these movements, and yet, while many ecocritical discourses examine the uncomfortable relationship of anthropocentricism and sustainability, some contemporary texts of the ethical food movement evidence a reluctant embrace of omnivorous eating, while simultaneously indicating a gendered, if ironic, machismo at odds with the principles of ethical eating. An analysis of the rhetoric of three popular nonfiction books that construct a similar narrative of the story of meat-Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, Susan Bourette's Meat, a Love Story, and Scott Gold's The Shameless Carnivore-reveals an attempt by these authors to naturalize what is essentially an economic and lifestyle activity. Working within a vegetarian ecofeminist framework, though recognizing that multiple compelling philosophical positions exist for considering the ethics of meat eating, this paper intends to argue, not that "ethical" and "omnivorous" are contradictory terms, but rather that a moral ambivalence prevails in these texts despite these authors' claims to the contrary. In elucidating these authors' reactions to their own participation in "the omnivore's dilemma" this paper pinpoints those areas where a resistance to a deeper examination of human-nonhuman relations is in operation
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Carnivore · Dilemma · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Omnivore · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
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Sémiotique du carnage
The end of intimate politics in Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster
Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices
Making meat moral
Beefsquatch and the raccoon king
Re-enchanting meat
Sizzling steaks and manly molds
Herding is his favourite thing in the world
Cattle in the Anthropocene
Playful rehearsals of animal subjugation
Gutting fishy empathies off the Shetland Islands, Scotland
Comment on George's "Should Feminists Be Vegetarians?"
Animal Rights and Feminist Theory
Standing in Livestock's ‘‘Long Shadow’’
Attending to Nature
Integrating Ethical Frameworks for Animals, Humans, and Nature A Critical Feminist Eco-Socialist Analysis
Why “Loving” Animals is Not Enough
What Pushed Me over the Edge Was a Deer Hunter”
Vegan Sexuality
Gender and slaughter in popular gastronomy
Reply to Adams, Donovan, and Gaard and Gruen
The American Story of Meat
We Are What We Eat
Ecofeminism and the Eating of Animals
Violent Love
Manhood Incorporated
Caring About Food
Should Feminists Be Vegetarians
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |