Food and culture in Argentina: Perceptions of plant-based diets, stigmatization of veganism and current challenges of activism to reduce (and end) animal consumption [PDF]
HIGHLIGHTS: *Shines a bright light on several fundamental cultural drivers of meat consumption in Argentina: 1) Powerful belief system in favor of eating meat. 2) Deep stigmatization of veganism.
Alexandra Navarro
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Communicating Vegan Utopias:The Counterfactual Construction of Human-animal Futures [PDF]
Industrialized animal agriculture reveals human-animal relations defined by routinized, institutionalized violence on a staggering scale. Despite greater public recognition of these issues, consumption of meat and other products from industrially ...
Adams, Matthew
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When meat gets personal, animals' minds matter less : motivated use of intelligence information in judgments of moral standing [PDF]
Why are many Westerners outraged by dog meat, but comfortable with pork? This is particularly puzzling, given strong evidence that both species are highly intelligent.
Loughnan, Stephen, Piazza, Jared Raymond
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Going veggie:Identifying and overcoming the social and psychological barriers to veganism [PDF]
We conceptualize the journey to ethical veganism in the stages of the transtheoretical model of change, from precontemplation through contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. At each stage, we explore the psychological barriers to progressing
Barnett, Julie +2 more
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Graphs of Grief and Other Green Feelings: the uses of affect in the study of environmental communication [PDF]
How can theories of affect and felt emotions be useful in studying the communication of environmental crises? Beginning from tears spilt over a graph of transgressed planetary boundaries published in an academic paper, this article explores the ...
Lockwood, Alex
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Veganism is a philosophy and lifestyle which rejects the consumption of animal products and calls for an end to animal exploitation. This article is an ethnographic exploration of how vegans internally comprehend and externally communicate vegan identity.
Hoon, Evelyn
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Veganism and social justice: applying a conceptual framework of violence [PDF]
The system of oppression embedded in the industrial production and consumption of animal products is a social problem. The animal-industrial complex is a significant part of the food system, with numerous consequences for people?especially marginalized ...
Myers, Katherine
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Between acceptance and veto: the meat perceptual dimensions [PDF]
This paper designates and describes the perceptual dimensions (practical perceptual dimension and cultural perceptual dimension) that affects the acceptance of meat consumption and animal products, as well the (production) perceptual dimension that ...
Fonseca, R. P.
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ABSTRACT Although motor‐skill differences in autistic individuals are well established, there is diverging evidence regarding what happens to motor skills in autistic children as they become adolescents. Using both cross‐sectional and longitudinal data, we examined fine and gross motor skills and grip strength of 187 autistic participants and 136 non ...
Allison R. Block +4 more
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The Creeps as a Moral Emotion [PDF]
Creepiness and the emotion of the creeps have been overlooked in the moral philosophy and moral psychology literatures. We argue that the creeps is a morally significant emotion in its own right, and not simply a type of fear, disgust, or anger (though ...
Fischer, Jeremy, Fredericks, Rachel
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