The Place of Meat in Dietary Policy: An Exploration of the Animal/Plant Divide
The virtues of ‘plant-based’ eating are commonly extolled in public and academic discourse, in particular in post-industrial countries and exceedingly so on a global level. Animal source foods, on the other hand, are regularly stigmatized for their alleged link with disease,environmental deteriorati...
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| description | The virtues of ‘plant-based’ eating are commonly extolled in public and academic discourse, in particular in post-industrial countries and exceedingly so on a global level. Animal source foods, on the other hand, are regularly stigmatized for their alleged link with disease,environmental deterioration, and animal abuse. Although there is a reasonable case for the improvement of animal agriculture, this discourse leads to a binary and counterproductive view of food systems: plants are largely seen as beneficial, animal source foods as intrinsically harmful. We argue that this animal/plant binary and the promotion of civic responsibility to accept it as such are cultural constructs that emerged in the Anglosphere during the 19th century. The divide has been continuously evolving since and is currently deepening due to a global sense of urgency, underpinned by various societal anxieties and normative responses. A symptomatic example is provided by the recent call for a Planetary Health Diet and a Great Food Transformation by the EAT-Lancet Commission and its wider network. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-05ba2b060dad4a9a9cd6b515784f8f5b2024-04-04T17:22:23ZengIowa State University Digital PressMeat and Muscle Biology2575-985X2020-07-014210.22175/mmb.9456The Place of Meat in Dietary Policy: An Exploration of the Animal/Plant DivideAdele H. Hite0Frédéric Leroy1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8682-9626Ronin Institute for Independent ScholarshipResearch Group of Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology (IMDO), Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit BrusselThe virtues of ‘plant-based’ eating are commonly extolled in public and academic discourse, in particular in post-industrial countries and exceedingly so on a global level. Animal source foods, on the other hand, are regularly stigmatized for their alleged link with disease,environmental deterioration, and animal abuse. Although there is a reasonable case for the improvement of animal agriculture, this discourse leads to a binary and counterproductive view of food systems: plants are largely seen as beneficial, animal source foods as intrinsically harmful. We argue that this animal/plant binary and the promotion of civic responsibility to accept it as such are cultural constructs that emerged in the Anglosphere during the 19th century. The divide has been continuously evolving since and is currently deepening due to a global sense of urgency, underpinned by various societal anxieties and normative responses. A symptomatic example is provided by the recent call for a Planetary Health Diet and a Great Food Transformation by the EAT-Lancet Commission and its wider network.https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/mmb/article/id/9456/sustainabilityvegetarianismanimal agricultureveganismmeat |
| spellingShingle | Adele H. Hite Frédéric Leroy The Place of Meat in Dietary Policy: An Exploration of the Animal/Plant Divide Meat and Muscle Biology sustainability vegetarianism animal agriculture veganism meat |
| title | The Place of Meat in Dietary Policy: An Exploration of the Animal/Plant Divide |
| title_full | The Place of Meat in Dietary Policy: An Exploration of the Animal/Plant Divide |
| title_fullStr | The Place of Meat in Dietary Policy: An Exploration of the Animal/Plant Divide |
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| title_short | The Place of Meat in Dietary Policy: An Exploration of the Animal/Plant Divide |
| title_sort | place of meat in dietary policy an exploration of the animal plant divide |
| topic | sustainability vegetarianism animal agriculture veganism meat |
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