Carnism in the Czech and Slovak context

This thesis is dedicated to study carnism. The author is trying to establish via compilation analysis its basis and origin, and common knowledge there is to have on carnism as an ideology. Later in this thesis will be analyzed the form of carnism in United States of America where this term was first defined and where several research papers were made concerning it's defining features. In the following part of this thesis, research is based around the analysis of carnism in Czech and Slovak environment and culture - thus defining the carnist ideology in the area which wasn't its place of origin, and both went through similar historical evolution in recent history. Those two latter countries have scarce awareness of carnism as an ideology, therefore information from research papers concerning meat consumption and meatless diets were applied as a source - meat eating is one of the most visible manifestations of the carnist ideology. In the last part of this thesis the author compares respective findings from those two speres of carnist ideology and thus tries to define the form of carnism in Czechia and Slovakia and to find specific areas in which Czech and Slovak carnism is unique. Key words: carnism; meat eating; defense mechanisms; Czech republic; Slovak republi