Happy meat : the sadness and joy of a paradoxical idea / Josée Johnston, Shyon Baumann, Emily Huddart, and Merin Oleschuk.
| Author/creator | Johnston, Josée, 1972- author. |
| Other author | Baumann, Shyon, 1971- author. |
| Other author | Kennedy, Emily Huddart, 1980- author. |
| Other author | Oleschuk, Merin, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Culture and economic life Culture and economic life. ^A1384609 |
| Contents | Introduction. How did meat become "happy"? -- Exploring the ethical meatscape -- No reservations? : the complicated case of regular (but conflicted) meat-eating -- Meat is disgusting... and delicious! -- Happy meat makes me feel good -- The reality behind raising happy meat : beyond a good/evil binary -- Producing happy meat at scale : managing vital animals and thinking sustainably -- Other people's meat -- Meat makes us healthy and whole - and can even heal the planet -- Conclusion. How can we eat ethically when meat is murder?. |
| Abstract | "North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms -- violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation -- the rate of meat eating hasn't changed significantly in recent years. Instead what has emerged is an uncomfortable paradox; a need to square one's values with the behaviors that contradict those values. Using an immense, one-of-a-kind dataset, Happy Meat explores the emotions that underpin our moral decision-making in this meat paradox. So-called conscientious meat-eaters use the notion of "happy meat" to rationalize their behaviors by adhering to ostensibly healthy, ethical, and sustainable ways to consume meat. Happy meat might be labeled grass fed, free-range, antibiotic free, naturally raised, or humane. The people who produce and consume it, together, make up the complex landscape of meat-eating in modern Western societies. The discourse of happy meat ultimately may not be a sufficient response to the critiques of meat-eating, rife, as it is, with internal contradictions. However, the authors make the case for its cultural and theoretical importance, as it exemplifies the significance of social context and emotions for understanding attitudes and behaviors"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-296) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Johnston, Josée, 1972- Happy meat. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025] 9781503642843 |
| LCCN | 2024043898 |
| ISBN | 9781503638334 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1503638332 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781503642836 paperback |
| ISBN | 1503642836 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | GT2868.55 .J65 2025 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |