Changing Meat Cultures

Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals

Arve Hansen, Karen Lykke Syse

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781538142660
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Agricultural Public Policy
• Index: Social Sciences

This collection explains changing meat cultures through studies of both everyday food practices and the political economy of industrialized animal husbandry. We do this through case studies from 'affluent' and 'developing' countries. These contributions will shed light on global food connections and show how global, industrialized food and fodder systems have changed the way we relate to animals, their meat, and what kind of animals' meat we eat. In the past few years, controversies around meat have arisen around industrialization and globalization of meat production, often pivoting around health, environmental problems, and animal welfare issues. Although meat increasingly figures as a problem, most consumers' knowledge of animal husbandry and meat is more absent than ever. How is meat produced today, and where? How do we consume meat, and how have our consumption habits changed? Why have these changes occurred, and what are the social and cultural consequences of these changes? This book takes the reader on a geographic, ethnographic and historical journey to rural and urban areas and arenas across the world, and tells a series of stories of the dramatic changes in meat consumption.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Table
• 1 New Meat Engagements: Cultures, Geographies, Economies
• 2 From Ritual Loss of Life to Loss of Living Rituals: On Judicialization of Slaughter and Denial of Animal Death
• 3 New Geographies of Global Meatification: The BRICS in the Industrial Meat Complex
• 4 From Pastures to Feedlots, from Beef to Soybeans: Changing Meat Culture in Argentina
• 5 Meating Demand in China: Changes in Chinese Meat Cultures through Time
• 6 Eating a Capitalist Transformation: Economic Development, Culinary Hybridization, and Changing Meat Cultures in Vietnam
• 7 Bovine Contradictions: The Politics of (De)meatification and Hindutva Hegemony in Neoliberal India
• 8 Reconnecting Life and Death in the British Alternative Halal Meat Movement
• 9 Meat We Don’t Greet: How ‘Sausages’ Can Free Pigs or How Effacing Livestock Makes Room for Emancipation
• 10 What Happens When Cultured Meat Meets Meat Culture? : (Un)naturalness and (Un)familiarity in the Meat of Today and Tomorrow
• Index
• About the Authors