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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262354806
A provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous. Humans are eating more meat than ever. Despite ubiquitous Sweetgreen franchises and the example set by celebrity vegans, demand for meat is projected to grow at twice the rate of demand for plant-based foods over the next thirty years. Between 1960 and 2010, per capita meat consumption in the developing world more than doubled; in China, meat consumption grew ninefold. It has even been claimed that meat made us human—that our disproportionately large human brains evolved because our early human ancestors ate meat. In The Meat Question, Josh Berson argues that not only did meat not make us human, but the contemporary increase in demand for meat is driven as much by economic insecurity as by affluence. Considering the full sweep of meat's history, Berson concludes provocatively that the future is not necessarily carnivorous. Berson, an anthropologist and historian, argues that we have the relationship between biology and capitalism backward. We may associate meat-eating with wealth, but in fact, meat-eating is a sign of poverty; cheap meat—hunger killing, easy to prepare, eaten on the go—enables a capitalism defined by inequality. To answer the meat question, says Berson, we need to think about meat-eating in a way that goes beyond Paleo diets and PETA protests to address the deeply entwined economic and political lives of humans and animals past, present, and future.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262354806
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 22 October 2019
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12271.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262354806