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Why it's easy being a vegetarian

Fudge, Erica (2010) Why it's easy being a vegetarian. Textual Practice, 24 (1). 149 - 166.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502360903230870

Abstract

If questions about nutritional value are set aside, what purpose does the act of consuming an animal possess? I take this as my central question here because meat-eating is not just an issue of nutrition: as Derrida wrote: 'and who can be made to believe that our cultures are carnivorous because animal proteins are irreplaceable?'1 There is something else going on when an animal's flesh is consumed.

Item type:	Article
ID code:	29511
Keywords:	meat, vegetarian, nutrition, human, Philosophy (General), Literature and Literary Theory
Subjects:	Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > Philosophy (General)
Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
Date deposited:	21 Mar 2011 16:20
Last modified:	21 Sep 2017 10:45
URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/29511
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