Vegetarianism
notes from the interblags: olympics, technology, race, and diets
• via Clay Spinuzzi, this great comparison of an original NY Times piece on the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese translation for a Chinese newspaper. The new copy omits anything that could be construed as negative, and even adds in extra positives. • My friend Eric takes students affairs to task for not adopting technology [...]
Propagandhi: Refusing To Be A Man
In a previous post (also my response paper for a class), I was concerned with the translation of academic discourse into various other discourse communities, especially in regards to difference and oppression. As Lisa Duggan puts the sentiment, the discourse of queer theory “resists translation into terms that are cultural legible and thus usable in [...]
Delahoyde and Despenich: “Creating Meat-Eaters” (1994)
In “Creating Meat-Eaters: The Child as Advertising Target,” Delahoyde and Despenich argue that “Paranoia about the growing validity of the vegetarian alternative has prompted meat advertisers to secure their own future through the most susceptible consumers — children” (148). Throughout their essay, they show how meat advertisements have a “vindictive, aggressive characteristic” (136), a “frantic intensity [...]
Heinz and Lee: “Getting Down to the Meat” (1998)
In “Getting Down to the Meat: The Symbolic Construction of Meat Consumption,” Heinz and Lee analyze an archive of “50 texts related to meat consumption” collected over two years (88). Drawing on Marx and others, they show how meat is a fetishized commodity that hides modes of production. Additionally, they use Kenneth Burke’s concept of [...]
MacKinnon: Animal Rights and the right question
I’ve been reading a lot over the last month or so, but haven’t been blogging about it. I’d like to return this blog back to its roots a bit and start chronicling what I’m reading, including some summaries and responses. To return this blog to a “database,” a “repository” of knowledge, I suppose. In “Of [...]
sexual politics of meat
In some respects we all acknowledge the sexual politics of meat. When we think that men, especially male athletes, need meat, or when wives report that they could give up meat but they fix it for their husbands, the overt association between meat eating and virile maleness is enacted. It is the covert associations that [...]
compulsory meat eating
Of course you can always count on secular colleges to promote absurdity. One recent workshop at the University of California Santa Cruz was entitled: Compulsory Meat-Eating and the Lesbian Vegetarian Connection. The thrust of the workshop was how eating meat is as horrible as being heterosexual!! (The Christian Observer 1998) This last spring, a few [...]
