The Conceptual Separation of Food and Animals in Childhood
Submitted on Jun 03, 2011 (Original item from 2009)
Farmed Animals | Vegetarianism and Veganism | International Research | Meat, Dairy, Egg Consumption | Pet Ownership | Psychology, Social Development, Social Motivations | Vegetarian Social, Psychological and Moral Development | Youths - Social, Ethical Development
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Short Description:
This research examines the relationship between animals in literature and films versus those in promotional food tie-ins and how these relationships affect children and their ability to emotionally separate themselves from animals they consume.
Abstract:
Article Abstract:
"Nonhuman animals are primarily defined according to their form of relation with human beings, which broadly depends on the perceived utility of those animals to humans. These relations may be analyzed to generate typologies, membership of which circumscribes the probable fate of nonhuman animals when they enter into contact with humans. However, these judgments of utility and category membership are contingent and socially constructed, as demonstrated by cultural and historical variability in the species and individual animals assigned to particular types. This paper explores how the combination of childhood literary and film traditions relating to animals and associated promotional food tie-ins aimed at children contribute to a food socialization process whereby children learn to conceptually distance the animals they eat from those with whom they have an emotional bond or for whom they feel ethically responsible. In so doing, we develop a theoretical scheme for the differentiated positioning of animals."
"Nonhuman animals are primarily defined according to their form of relation with human beings, which broadly depends on the perceived utility of those animals to humans. These relations may be analyzed to generate typologies, membership of which circumscribes the probable fate of nonhuman animals when they enter into contact with humans. However, these judgments of utility and category membership are contingent and socially constructed, as demonstrated by cultural and historical variability in the species and individual animals assigned to particular types. This paper explores how the combination of childhood literary and film traditions relating to animals and associated promotional food tie-ins aimed at children contribute to a food socialization process whereby children learn to conceptually distance the animals they eat from those with whom they have an emotional bond or for whom they feel ethically responsible. In so doing, we develop a theoretical scheme for the differentiated positioning of animals."
Spot Check Number:
1709
Sponsor:
University of Bristol
Animal Type:
Various
Record Type:
Academic Paper, Survey Summary
Research Method:
Literature Review
Geographic Region:
International
Number of Participants:
Unknown
Population Descriptors:
Children
Year Conducted:
2009
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Counterbalancing the effects of speciesism
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