Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Abstract
The relationship between people and animals is morally
complex. This complexity stems from our ambivalent
treatment of animals and is nowhere better captured than
in the consumption of meat. Meat eating is morally problematic
because it contrasts our desire to avoid hurting
animals with our appetite for their flesh. This tension – to
love animals and to love meat – is the essence of the meat
paradox.
title = "The meat paradox: how are we able to love animals and love eating animals?",
abstract = "The relationship between people and animals is morally complex. This complexity stems from our ambivalent treatment of animals and is nowhere better captured than in the consumption of meat. Meat eating is morally problematic because it contrasts our desire to avoid hurting animals with our appetite for their flesh. This tension – to love animals and to love meat – is the essence of the meat paradox.",
author = "Steve Loughnan and Boyka Bratanova and Elisa Puvia",
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - The meat paradox
T2 - how are we able to love animals and love eating animals?
AU - Loughnan, Steve
AU - Bratanova, Boyka
AU - Puvia, Elisa
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The relationship between people and animals is morally
complex. This complexity stems from our ambivalent
treatment of animals and is nowhere better captured than
in the consumption of meat. Meat eating is morally problematic
because it contrasts our desire to avoid hurting
animals with our appetite for their flesh. This tension – to
love animals and to love meat – is the essence of the meat
paradox.
AB - The relationship between people and animals is morally
complex. This complexity stems from our ambivalent
treatment of animals and is nowhere better captured than
in the consumption of meat. Meat eating is morally problematic
because it contrasts our desire to avoid hurting
animals with our appetite for their flesh. This tension – to
love animals and to love meat – is the essence of the meat
paradox.