Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures and Table
List of Figures and Table
	Figures
	Table
Chapter 1: New Meat Engagements: Cultures, Geographies, Economies
	Changing Meat Cultures
	Industrialized Animal Killing
	Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: From Ritual Loss of Life to Loss of Living Rituals: On Judicialization of Slaughter and Denial of Animal Death
	Animal Killing and Ritual
	“Die! That Is Why You Are Here”
	Civilizing Slaughter
	Judicializating Death
	Laws and Regulations as Smoke Screens
	Merciful Norway versus Muslims and Jews
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: New Geographies of Global Meatification: The BRICS in the Industrial Meat Complex
	Introduction
	Unpacking Global Meatification
	The BRICS in Global Meatification
	Concluding Discussion: BRICS, Meatification, and Global Poultryfication
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: From Pastures to Feedlots, from Beef to Soybeans: Changing Meat Culture in Argentina
	Introduction
	Increasing Appetite for Meat
	The Expansion of Soy in Argentina
	Argentina-China—“A Marriage of Convenience”
	Changes in Land Use
	How Argentina Became a Meat Power
	The Role of Meat in the National Kitchen
	Decrease in Bovine Meat Production and Consumption
	Changing Meat Culture
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Meating Demand in China: Changes in Chinese Meat Cultures through Time
	Introduction
	Meat in Chinese Tradition
	Meat in Contemporary China
	Concluding Thoughts
	References
Chapter 6: Eating a Capitalist Transformation: Economic Development, Culinary Hybridization, and Changing Meat Cultures in Vietnam
	Introduction
	Eating Ethnography
	The Uneven Geographies of Meat
	Provisioning Meat
	Meatifying Food Practices: Eating Out and Culinary Hybridization
	Changing Meat Cultures
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7: Bovine Contradictions: The Politics of (De)meatification and Hindutva Hegemony in Neoliberal India
	Hegemony in Neoliberal India
	Cow Vigilantism and Hindu Nationalism
	The Political Economy of Meat
	Concluding Discussion: Negotiating Bovine Contradictions
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Reconnecting Life and Death in the British Alternative Halal Meat Movement
	Introduction and Background
	Situating Halal Consumption
	Spaces of Reconnection: Animal Lives
	Spaces of Killing: Animal Death
	The Sacred and the Secular
	Conclusions
	Note
	References
Chapter 9: Meat We Don’t Greet: How ‘Sausages’ Can Free Pigs or How Effacing Livestock Makes Room for Emancipation1
	Introduction
	Technological Intensification and Effacement
	Ignorance and Emancipation
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: What Happens When Cultured Meat Meets Meat Culture? : (Un)naturalness and (Un)familiarity in the Meat of Today and Tomorrow
	Introduction
	On the Road to Sustainable (Cultured) Meat
	(Un)natural or (Un)familiar? Unpacking Consumers’ Qualms Over Cultured Meat
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Index
About the Authors