Tutora: Núria AlmironEnvironmental, ethical, and animal defense reasons have led to a rise in the consumption of plant-based meat alternatives. The marketing of these products, however, can reinforce speciesist tropes. While attempts to sell animal products are often oriented at hiding the origin of the meal from the consumer through the ‘absent referent’, I explore what I call the ‘overt referent’: the commodification of the consumption, characteristics, and consent of nonhuman animals to sell plant-based meat alternatives. The paper attempts to lay the theoretical basis of speciesism and expand on the theory of the overt referent through a case study of plant-based meat producer The Vegetarian Butcher. Conclusions include strong ev...
In this paper I examine several of the moral and political questions raised by new kinds of meat. I ...
Have you ever seen “tofurkey” at the supermarket and thought it was a rare, delicious cousin of the ...
Environmentally intense and negative consequences relateing to conventional meat production systems ...
The food industry occupies a large portion of the plate in the study of moral markets, which would b...
The past decades’ substantial growth in globalized meat consumption continues to shape the internati...
Plant-based meat alternatives have grown tremendously in recent years, with an unprecedented increas...
‘Meat substitutes’ (also known as meat analogues, mock meat, faux meat, alternative proteins, and im...
Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, May, 2020Cataloge...
I propose that the intensification of meat production ironically makes meat concepts available to be...
This thesis uses an interdisciplinary Critical Animal Studies and Foucauldian Studies framework to a...
In recent sustainability transitions research, more attention has been called to dynamic relations b...
The paper proposes an anthropocentric argument for veganism based on a speciesistic premise that mos...
The number of people reducing their meat consumption due to ethical and environmental concerns is gr...
The number of people reducing their meat consumption due to ethical and environmental concerns is gr...
This article takes as its point of departure an event in which a plant-based version of the space al...
In this paper I examine several of the moral and political questions raised by new kinds of meat. I ...
Have you ever seen “tofurkey” at the supermarket and thought it was a rare, delicious cousin of the ...
Environmentally intense and negative consequences relateing to conventional meat production systems ...
The food industry occupies a large portion of the plate in the study of moral markets, which would b...
The past decades’ substantial growth in globalized meat consumption continues to shape the internati...
Plant-based meat alternatives have grown tremendously in recent years, with an unprecedented increas...
‘Meat substitutes’ (also known as meat analogues, mock meat, faux meat, alternative proteins, and im...
Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, May, 2020Cataloge...
I propose that the intensification of meat production ironically makes meat concepts available to be...
This thesis uses an interdisciplinary Critical Animal Studies and Foucauldian Studies framework to a...
In recent sustainability transitions research, more attention has been called to dynamic relations b...
The paper proposes an anthropocentric argument for veganism based on a speciesistic premise that mos...
The number of people reducing their meat consumption due to ethical and environmental concerns is gr...
The number of people reducing their meat consumption due to ethical and environmental concerns is gr...
This article takes as its point of departure an event in which a plant-based version of the space al...
In this paper I examine several of the moral and political questions raised by new kinds of meat. I ...
Have you ever seen “tofurkey” at the supermarket and thought it was a rare, delicious cousin of the ...
Environmentally intense and negative consequences relateing to conventional meat production systems ...