Pilgrim, Karyn, "‘Happy Cows,’ ‘Happy Beef’: A Critique of the Rationales for Ethical Meat"
Within a vegetarian ecofeminist framework, Pilgrim analyses three popular nonfiction books that construct narratives around the story of meat.
Within a vegetarian ecofeminist framework, Pilgrim analyses three popular nonfiction books that construct narratives around the story of meat.
In this Review Essay, Karyn Pilgrim uses a vegetarian ecofeminist framework to examine the ethics of meat eating, arguing that a moral ambivalence prevails in the rhetoric of some popular nonfiction books that embrace omnivorous eating.
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