Interpreting Meat
Meat is the essential object dislodged in human-animal relations: in its commonplace, everyday ubiquity and distanced violence, it defies the innocuous or protective-paternalistic stance that we ordinarily take towards animals. Through looking at meat''s status as a fundamental and visceral part of human-animal relations--particularly its commodification and consumption--this book exhibits how...
Meat is the essential object dislodged in human-animal relations: in its commonplace, everyday ubiquity and distanced violence, it defies the innocuous or protective-paternalistic stance that we ordinarily take towards animals. Through looking at meat''s status as a fundamental and visceral part of human-animal relations--particularly its commodification and consumption--this book exhibits how...
