Dissociating meat from its animal origins: A systematic literature review

Benningstad, Nora C.G.; Kunst, Jonas R.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2019.104554

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“…Despite experiencing moral discomfort with eating animals (Bastian & Loughnan, 2017), people typically maintain meat-eating habits by psychologically distorting the links between products and their animal origins (Benningstad & Kunst, 2020;Earle et al, 2019) and through rationalizations (Piazza, 2020). The pandemic may have already influenced these processes, better-equipping some people to defuse moral discomfort and maintain meat consumption while motivating other people to shift toward plant-based substitutes (as reflected in rising sales of plant-based products; Terazono & Meyer, 2020).…”

Section: Human-animal Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations

Rosenfeld

Balcetis

Bastian

et al. 2021

Perspect Psychol Sci

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The COVID-19 pandemic has extensively changed the state of psychological science from what research questions psychologists can ask to which methodologies psychologists can use to investigate them. In this article, we offer a perspective on how to optimize new research in the pandemic’s wake. Because this pandemic is inherently a social phenomenon—an event that hinges on human-to-human contact—we focus on socially relevant subfields of psychology. We highlight specific psychological phenomena that have likely shifted as a result of the pandemic and discuss theoretical, methodological, and practical considerations of conducting research on these phenomena. After this discussion, we evaluate metascientific issues that have been amplified by the pandemic. We aim to demonstrate how theoretically grounded views on the COVID-19 pandemic can help make psychological science stronger—not weaker—in its wake.

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Section: Human-animal Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations

Rosenfeld

Balcetis

Bastian

et al. 2021

Perspect Psychol Sci

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“…It is therefore rather easy to implicitly view meat as distinct from animals (Benningstad and Kunst, 2020). This situation is captured well in an episode of The Simpsons that has been used as an intervention to reduce meat consumption , in which Homer Simpson chastises his newly vegetarian daughter: "Lisa, get a hold of yourself.…”

Section: Forthcoming In Appetitementioning

confidence: 99%

Interventions to reduce meat consumption by appealing to animal welfare: Meta-analysis and evidence-based recommendations

Mathur¹,

Peacock²,

Reichling³

et al. 2021

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Reducing meat consumption may improve human health, curb environmental damage, and limit the large-scale suffering of animals reared in factory farms. Most attention to reducing consumption has focused on restructuring environments where foods are chosen or making health or environmental appeals. However, psychological theory suggests that interventions appealing to animal welfare might operate on distinct, potent pathways. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis evaluating the effectiveness of these interventions. We searched eight academic databases and extensively searched grey literature. We meta-analyzed 100 studies assessing interventions designed to reduce meat consumption or purchase by mentioning or portraying farm animals, that measured behavioral or self-reported outcomes related to meat consumption, purchase, or related intentions, and that had a control condition. The interventions consistently reduced meat consumption, purchase, or related intentions at least in the short term with meaningfully large effects (meta-analytic average risk ratio [RR] = 1.22; 95% CI: [1.13, 1.33]). We estimated that a large majority of true population effects (71%; [95% CI: 58%, 80%]) were stronger than RR=1.1 and that few were in the unintended direction. Via meta-regression, we identified some study and intervention characteristics that were associated with effect size. Risk-of-bias assessments identified both methodological strengths and limitations of this literature; however, results did not differ meaningfully in sensitivity analyses retaining only studies at the lowest risk of bias. Evidence of publication bias was not apparent. In conclusion, animal welfare interventions preliminarily appear effective in these typically short-term studies of primarily self-reported outcomes. Future research should use direct behavioral outcomes that minimize the potential for social desirability bias and are measured over long-term follow-up.

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“…A conflict between foodscapes and thoughtscapes has become evident to those post-domestic subjects who are no longer able to robustly align the historical 'need' for animal foods with the requirements for animal rearing and killing (Benningstad and Kunst, 2020). Selective exposure to the most graphic and problematic examples of today's industrial livestock production have amplified this effect and resulted in a mental crisis.…”

Section: The Case For a Great Transition: The Abolishment Of Livestock And Its Implications A Radical Response To A Moral Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Livestock in Evolving Foodscapes and Thoughtscapes

Leroy

Hite

Gregorini

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Humanity's main societal and epistemic transitions also mirror changes in its approach to the food system. This particularly holds true for human-animal interactions and the consumption of animal source foods (red meat especially, and to a lesser degree dairy, eggs, poultry, and fish). Hunter-gathering has been by far the longest prevailing form of human sustenance, followed by a diffuse transition to crop agriculture and animal husbandry. This transition eventually stabilized as a state-controlled model based on the domestication of plants, animals, and humans. A shift to a post-domestic paradigm was initiated during the 19th century in the urbanizing populations of the Anglosphere, which was characterized by the rise of agri-food corporations, an increased meat supply, and a disconnect of most of its population from the food chain. While this has improved undernutrition, various global threats have been emerging in parallel. The latter include, among others, a public health crisis, climate change, pandemics, and societal class anxieties. This state of affairs is an unstable one, setting the conditions of possibility for a new episteme that may evolve beyond mere adjustments within the businessas-usual model. At least two disruptive scenarios have been described in current food discourses, both by scientists and mass media. Brought to its extreme, the first scenario relates to the radical abolishment of livestock, rewilding, a 'plants-only' diet, and vegan ideology. A second option consists of a holistic approach to animal husbandry, involving more harmonic and richer types of human-animal-land interactions. We argue thatinstead of reactive pleas for less or none -future thoughtscapes should emphasize 'more of the better.'

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Dissociating meat from its animal origins: A systematic literature review

Cited by 66 publications

References 33 publications

Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations

Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations

Interventions to reduce meat consumption by appealing to animal welfare: Meta-analysis and evidence-based recommendations

Livestock in Evolving Foodscapes and Thoughtscapes

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