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The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
by Carol J. Adams
I don't give this book four stars because it was easy to read. Quite the opposite, it was like reading someone's thesis. I do give it four stars because it raised many ideas I had never heard before, ideas that staggered me. The most shocking of which is how patriarchy has misused language about meat to help people deceive themselves about what they are eating.
Have you ever thought about what gender the steak you are eating was before you ate it? I haven't. The idea never occured to me. Have you ever thought about the fact that we don't refer to steak and burgers as corpses (they are), but instead deceive ourselves on that score by calling them 'meat?' Have you ever thought about the four stages of meat-eating, and whether or not industrialized factory farms are sustainable operations for the planet? They aren't. Have you ever thought about how animals are treated no different than black people were during slavery? Most people walk around 100% indifferent to this fact.
How can we accept this?
Have you ever thought about what gender the steak you are eating was before you ate it? I haven't. The idea never occured to me. Have you ever thought about the fact that we don't refer to steak and burgers as corpses (they are), but instead deceive ourselves on that score by calling them 'meat?' Have you ever thought about the four stages of meat-eating, and whether or not industrialized factory farms are sustainable operations for the planet? They aren't. Have you ever thought about how animals are treated no different than black people were during slavery? Most people walk around 100% indifferent to this fact.
How can we accept this?