For readers who are vegan, the phenomenon documented in this new book Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial will seem very familiar. It is difficult to live as a vegan without running headlong into the deeply established traditions, habits, and unreflective beliefs that support the consumption of nonhuman animals. The culture of animal consumption is wrapped up in people's identities. Just being a vegan is a threat to these identities because the existence of our movement questions the power that humans violently exercise over nonhuman animals. Conversations about animal agriculture are thus fraught with cultural baggage even before you add in the profit motive driving whole industries to actively undermine and resist any critical reflection. In these conversations, we see a predictable rhetorical pattern that is not just disagreement. Too often those defending animal agriculture rely on obfuscation, denial, gaslighting, and ad hominem attacks. The book...
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April 01 2023
Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial
Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial
. Edited by Jason Hannan. (Sydney, Australia
: Sydney University Press
, 2020
. 334 + ix pp. Paperback. A$45.00. ISBN 978-1743327104.)
Steven McMullen
Steven McMullen
Hope College, Holland, Michigan
steven mcmullen is an associate professor of economics at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He is also a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics and editor of the journal Faith & Economics. He is the author of Animals and the Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). His research is broad and includes questions related to animal and environmental ethics and public policy. Email: mcmullen@hope.edu
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Journal of Animal Ethics (2023) 13 (1): 91–93.
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Steven McMullen; Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial. Journal of Animal Ethics 1 April 2023; 13 (1): 91–93. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21601267.13.1.10
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