
Marie Leth-Espensen
Affiliated researcher

Kill Your Favorite Dish : Examining the Role of New Carnivorism in perpetuating Meat Eating
Author
Summary, in English
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.
Department/s
- Department of Sociology of Law
Publishing year
2019-09-05
Language
English
Pages
376-392
Publication/Series
Society & Animals
Volume
29
Issue
4
Links
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Brill
Topic
- Sociology
Keywords
- New Carnivorism
- meat eating
- Carol Adams
- visibility
- respect
- empathy
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1568-5306