Real men don’t eat (vegetable) quiche: Masculinity and the justification of meat consumption.
@article{Rothgerber2013RealMD, title={Real men don’t eat (vegetable) quiche: Masculinity and the justification of meat consumption.}, author={Hank Rothgerber}, journal={Psychology of Men and Masculinity}, year={2013}, volume={14}, pages={363-375} }
As arguments become more pronounced that meat consumption harms the environment, public health, and animals, meat eaters should experience increased pressure to justify their behavior. Results of a first study showed that male undergraduates used direct strategies to justify eating meat, including endorsing pro-meat attitudes, denying animal suffering, believing that animals are lower in a hierarchy than humans and that it is human fate to eat animals, and providing religious and health…
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