Kill Your Favorite Dish : Examining the Role of New Carnivorism in perpetuating Meat Eating
(2019) In Society & Animals 29(4). p.376-392- Abstract
- Scholars and activists opposing the killing of nonhuman animals have long shared the assumption that the invisibility of the animals killed for meat is one of the most sig- nificant factors when it comes to explaining how meat eating is perpetuated. However, a recent tendency towards a new visibility of these animals and their physical trans- formation into meat fundamentally challenges this assumption. The present paper addresses this discrepancy by examining an example of what has been described as “New Carnivorism” in the form of a Danish TV show called Kill Your Favorite Dish. The paper finds that in the show, visibility is in fact instrumental in justifying meat eating, as it is constitutive of a complex narrative about awareness,... (More)
- Scholars and activists opposing the killing of nonhuman animals have long shared the assumption that the invisibility of the animals killed for meat is one of the most sig- nificant factors when it comes to explaining how meat eating is perpetuated. However, a recent tendency towards a new visibility of these animals and their physical trans- formation into meat fundamentally challenges this assumption. The present paper addresses this discrepancy by examining an example of what has been described as “New Carnivorism” in the form of a Danish TV show called Kill Your Favorite Dish. The paper finds that in the show, visibility is in fact instrumental in justifying meat eating, as it is constitutive of a complex narrative about awareness, authenticity, pleasure, and respect. This points to a need for more nuanced understandings of how invisibility and visibility of nonhuman animals are at work in enabling the continuance of meat eating. (Less)
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- Leth-Espensen, Marie LU and Madsen, Mathias Elrød
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- publishing date
- 2019-09-05
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- New Carnivorism, meat eating, Carol Adams, visibility, respect, empathy
- in
- Society & Animals
- volume
- 29
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Brill
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- scopus:85113746686
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- 1568-5306
- DOI
- 10.1163/15685306-12341568
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- English
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- yes
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- d9e27f3f-549a-4042-a2e4-cc52205f12ff
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