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Beschreibung
"North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms -- violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation -- the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox; a need to square one's values with the behaviors that contradict those values. Using an immense, one-of-a-kind dataset, Happy Meat explores the emotions that underpin our moral decision-making in this meat paradox. So-called conscientious meat-eaters use the notion of "happy meat" to rationalize their behaviors by adhering to ostensibly healthy, ethical, and sustainable ways to consume meat. Happy meat might be labeled grass fed, free-range, antibiotic free, naturally raised, or humane. The people who produce and consume it, together, make up the complex landscape of meat-eating in modern Western societies. The discourse of happy meat ultimately may not be a sufficient response to the critiques of meat-eating, rife, as it is, with internal contradictions. However, the authors make the case for its cultural and theoretical importance, as it exemplifies the significance of social context and emotions for understanding attitudes and behaviors"-- Provided by publisher.
"North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms -- violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation -- the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox; a need to square one's values with the behaviors that contradict those values. Using an immense, one-of-a-kind dataset, Happy Meat explores the emotions that underpin our moral decision-making in this meat paradox. So-called conscientious meat-eaters use the notion of "happy meat" to rationalize their behaviors by adhering to ostensibly healthy, ethical, and sustainable ways to consume meat. Happy meat might be labeled grass fed, free-range, antibiotic free, naturally raised, or humane. The people who produce and consume it, together, make up the complex landscape of meat-eating in modern Western societies. The discourse of happy meat ultimately may not be a sufficient response to the critiques of meat-eating, rife, as it is, with internal contradictions. However, the authors make the case for its cultural and theoretical importance, as it exemplifies the significance of social context and emotions for understanding attitudes and behaviors"-- Provided by publisher.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: How did Meat Become "Happy"?
I. Situating Happy Meat
1. Exploring the Ethical Meatscape
2. No Reservations? The Complicated Case of Regular (but Conflicted) Meat-Eating
II. The Emotions of Eating Meat
3. Meat is Disgustingand Delicious!
4. Happy Meat Makes Me Feel Good
III. Raising Happy Animals
5. The Reality Behind Raising Happy Meat: Beyond a Good/Evil Binary
6. Producing Happy Meat at Scale: Managing Vital Animals and Thinking Sustainably
IV. The Boundary Work of Happy Meat
7. Other People's Meat
8. Meat Makes Us Healthy and Whole-and Can Even Heal the Planet
Conclusion: How Can We Eat Ethically When Meat Is Murder?
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781503642836
ISBN-10: 1503642836
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Baumann, Shyon
Kennedy, Emily Huddart
Johnston, Josee
Oleschuk, Merin
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 224 x 150 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Shyon Baumann (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2025
Gewicht: 0,454 kg
Artikel-ID: 133218422

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