Multimedia | interviews and talks
Daniel Philippon on "The Sustainable Food Movement"
Daniel Philippon, Carson Fellow September 2011 to February 2012, talks about his research on the sustainable food movement.
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Multimedia | film profile
The Happy Poet
This comedy drama is about a struggling poet who starts a healthy food stand to change the way people eat, and faces the complicated challenges of fighting against the system.
Multimedia | film profile
Dschungelburger—Hackfleischordnung International [Jungleburgers]
Jungleburgers is a documentary about the rainforest in Costa Rica being destroyed for the sake of low-cost beef for the US hamburger market.
Multimedia | film profile
Asikel—Die Reise [Asikel—The Journey]
Asikel tells of the journey of Tuareg men who, after a great drought, seek work in the city to support their families.
Multimedia | journal article
Pilgrim, Karyn, “‘Happy Cows,’ ‘Happy Beef’: A Critique of the Rationales for Ethical 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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“You Are What You Eat”: Stupid Vegetables and the Charm of the New | Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism
While English satire magazines mocked vegetarianism since the 1840s, the first German caricatures appeared some 30 years later. Early drawings often imagined that a vegetarian would gradually transform into a plant. Other recurring topics are the assumed correlation between (meatless) nutrition and (peaceful, fragile) physical appearance and character, as well as the debate over whether a meat-rich or a meat-free diet was better for human health.
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Humans, Animals, and Nature: Ideas of a Natural and Harmonious (Co-)Existence | Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism
In the nineteenth century, there was much debate about the question of which way of living could be regarded as “natural.” Caricatures on vegetarianism mock ideas of the “natural” relationship between animal and man, and draft utopian as well as dystopian visions of a vegetarian future.
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Meat Ban: Pleasure and Pain, Asceticism, and Hypocrisy | Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism
Since vegetarian societies began to spread and organize events in Germany, their missionary attitude and their supposed moral superiority have been ridiculed. Caricatures mocked the rigid rules of the vegetarians and their societies, accusing them of hypocrisy or of reinterpreting the self-imposed prohibitions according to their own needs and weaknesses.
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Lifestyle and Zeitgeist: Social Norms and Reforms | Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism
In the early phase of the vegetarian movement, satirists playfully imagined how this diet and worldview affected different aspects of culture. Other cartoons make fun of the fact that vegetarianism quickly became a trend that was seen as sign of the Zeitgeist of the 1880s. Surprisingly, they overlooked the fact that vegetarianism was indeed intended as a sociocultural reform that could contribute to social and gender equality.
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Mensch, Tier und Natur – Vorstellungen natürlicher, harmonischer (Ko-)Existenz | Fleischloser Humor
In the nineteenth century, there was much debate about the question of which way of living could be regarded as “natural.” Caricatures on vegetarianism mock ideas of the “natural” relationship between animal and man, and draft utopian as well as dystopian visions of a vegetarian future. This is from the German version of “Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism.” For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.