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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 149 - 166 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Textual Practice |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 23 Nov 2009 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2010 |
Keywords
- meat
- vegetarian
- nutrition
- human