Always-Already Meat: The Human–Animal Boundary and Ethics
Always-Already Meat: The Human–Animal Boundary and Ethics
This chapter explores texts that define the human–animal boundary and the practices it supports, focusing on the consumption of animals as one of the demarcations of the human–animal interaction. It investigates the integration of animals into human social relations, which is brought about by the emergence of capitalism, and also analyses texts which are concerned with the ethics of who eats whom, arguing that humans can consume animals and that reversing this relationship is somehow unnatural.
Keywords: human–animal boundary, consumption, animals, human social relations, capitalism, ethics
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