The reintegration of animals and slaughter into discourses of meat eating

J. Gutjahr

The reintegration of animals and slaughter into discourses of meat eating

In: The ethics of consumption

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J. Gutjahr

J. Gutjahr Group for Society and Animals Studies, Institute of Sociology, University of Hamburg, Allende Platz 1, 20146 Hamburg, Germany; julia.gutjahr@gsa-hamburg.org

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Pages:: 379–385

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867844_063

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In my paper I analyze, how the slaughter of nonhuman animals is legitimated and framed in recent media discourses on ‘responsible’ meat consumption, and which role these phenomena play concerning ambivalences in the human-animal relationship. In modernity, specific strategies and social techniques have rendered the animals, which are killed within the system of meat production, invisible, and have served to cover up the violence against them. Recently, however, there is a new movement towards re-visualization of animals within the meat-production process. Here, contrary to regular discourses on meat-eating, the animal is very much present, and consumers actively acknowledge the fact, that animals have to be killed for their food. Through analyzing the content of depictions of German media and popular culture dealing with the process of (‘do-it-yourself ’) slaughter and ‘responsible’ meat consumption, I will show, that the new visualization of animals and slaughter is embedded in a set of complex and ideological strategies, and that those phenomena can be interpreted as a reaction to current debates on the issues of intensive animal husbandry and meat consumption.

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The ethics of consumption

The citizen, the market, and the law

E-Book ISBN:: 9789086867844

Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 01 Nov 2013

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