{"id":4523,"date":"2024-06-26T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T10:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2024\/06\/26\/meat-paradox-youre-probably-not-immune\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T12:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T10:05:13","slug":"meat-paradox-youre-probably-not-immune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2024\/06\/26\/meat-paradox-youre-probably-not-immune\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat Paradox: You’re (probably) not immune!"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”]Do you like meat<\/em>? Yes?
\nAnd do you like animals<\/em>? Is this also a “yes”?
\nSo… how do you overcome this internal conflict<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Let me guess: you try not to think about the suffering they go through before being slaughtered and arriving on your plate?<\/p>\n

Well… yes. You’re a hypocrite<\/strong>.
\nAnd myself, I love both animals and eating meat.<\/p>\n

You and I, “we are both part of the same hypocrisy<\/em>” as Michael Corleone said to the Senator of Nevada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is called Meat paradox<\/strong><\/a>: a person tends, even sincerely, to care about animals; neverthless, this does not mean they are willing to stop eating them (an atavistic habit of humans: not wanting to give up a caloric meal).<\/p>\n

So, what do we try to do to avoid this cognitive dissonance<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Several papers have scientifically proven this.Among all, one with a very eloquent title: “Meat eaters by dissociation: How we present, prepare and talk about meat increases willingness to eat meat by reducing empathy and disgust<\/a>” (J.R. Kunst and S.M. Hohle, University of Oslo, Norway).<\/p>\n

There are various “tricks<\/em>“: from using different names for the animal itself and the slaughtered piece (the cow becomes “beef<\/em>“, the pig becomes “pork<\/em>“). And then, describing industrial meat production as \u201charvesting<\/em>\u201d versus \u201ckilling<\/em>\u201d or \u201cslaughtering<\/em>\u201d.
\nCle(a)ver, isn’t it?…<\/p>\n

And then, processed meat (cold cuts, beef jerky, meatballs…) is always less impressive than seeing an anatomical piece<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Or, if there really has to be the anatomical piece, well, at least the head<\/em> shouldn’t be seen.<\/p>\n

Because the head probably reminds us that that animal had a brain and a face, and it bleated\/grunted\/mooed.
\nAnd we don’t like to think so.<\/p>\n

“People may escape the conflict between enjoying meat and concern for animal welfare by perceiving animals as unworthy and unfeeling<\/em>” as was written in another article on the topic (“The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals<\/a> “, S.Loughnan, N.Haslam, B.Bastian, from University of Melbourne, Australia).
\nMind-blowing<\/em>, right?<\/p>\n

Anyway: if you work in catering or hospitality industry, and you are interested in my copywriting and\/or content writing services, just drop me a message<\/a>![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=”no”]Do you like meat? Yes? And do you like animals? Is this also a “yes”? So… how do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}