{"product_id":"to-eat-or-not-to-eat-meat-how-vegetarian-dietary-choices-influence-our-social-lives-9781538159651","title":"To Eat or Not to Eat Meat: How Vegetarian Dietary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncreasingly, people are shifting to vegetarian, plant-based, or vegan diets. This shift is having profound effects on our social interactions, and this is the focus of this book. Becoming a vegetarian or vegan involves more than just changing your diet. It can change how you socially and emotionally connect with family, friends and the broader community, shape your outlook on life, and open up new worlds and contacts. It can also lead to uncomfortable situations, if dietary choices involving a rejection of meat are read by others as an ethical and moral judgement on mainstream dietary choices. This book adopts an innovative narrative approach, and draws on stories across the globe to consider how the food choices we make in our everyday lives can lead to complex, and sometimes life changing, social consequences. The narratives cover a range of topics, including the moral reasons behind some individuals’ decision to change their diets, the religious or ecological considerations, and the potential health and social ramifications. To date, the social consequences of selecting a plant-based diet have been sorely overlooked in favour of texts that have documented the benefits of such diets, and usually focus on health, animal welfare and\/or environmental issues, with the aim of persuading readers to give up meat, and change to a ‘healthy’ and\/or ‘sustainable’ diet. Cultural studies texts considering vegetarianism or veganism have typically targeted academic audiences with analyses of how identity is constructed through food and dietary choices. In contrast, this book offers a unique window onto how our social lives are implicated in our food choices, and is critical in understanding the importance of diet as embedded in complex social processes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWORD \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Charlotte J. S. De Backer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Charlotte J. S. De Backer and Maryanne L. Fisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 AUSTRALIA: Vegans, Vegetarians, and Australia \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Lelia Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 AUSTRALIA: Experiences of a Vegan in the Australian Jewish Community\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Talia Raphaely and Asher Myerson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 AUSTRIA: Wiener Schnitzel versus Plant-based Food. The Transition of Meat-based Regional Austrian Food to Vegan Products \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Ulrike Atzmuller-Zeilinger, and Helmut Jungwirth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 BELGIUM: Exceptional or Common? Vegetarianism and Veganism in Belgium \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Laurence Verheijen and Sara Erreygers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 BRAZIL: Brazil and Its Vegan and Vegetarian Diets \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Anthonieta Looman Mafra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 CANADA: The Canadian Context on Vegetarian and Vegan Diets \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Maryanne L. Fisher and Joanne C. Fisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 FINLAND: The Unselfish Vegan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Mari Niva, Annukka Vainio, and Piia Jallinoja\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 GERMANY: I Eat Honey Also—Sometimes . . .Marita’s Story about Her Vegan Diet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Pamela Kerschke-Risch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 IRELAND: Meat Avoidance Diets in Ireland: How Food Choices Influence the Way We Are Perceived by Others and the Ways in Which We Interact with Others\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Maeve Henchion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10 ISRAEL: The Israeli Context on Vegetarian and Vegan Diets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Sigal Tifferet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11 ITALY: Fond of Veg-Food: Tradition, Transition,Transformation \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Alessandra Micalizzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 THE NETHERLANDS: Vegetarianism in the Dutch Polder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Hans Dagevos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13 SOUTH AFRICA: Vegan and Vegetarian Communities in South Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Yandisa Ngqangashe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14 TURKEY: Do Worldviews Change through Eating Habits? Incarnation of a Turkish Vegan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Ilkay Kanik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15 UNITED KINGDOM: I Am Not Awkward, I Am Just a Vegetarian. Trials and Tribulations of a Vegetarian in the UK \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Chrysostomos Apostolidis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16 UNITED STATES: Experiences as a Vegan in the United States: The Effects of Diet, Identity, and Morality on Social Relations \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Daniel L. Rosenfeld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONCLUSION \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy Charlotte J. S. De Backer and Maryanne L. Fisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABOUT THE AUTHORS","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041211941207,"sku":"9781538159651","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538159651.jpg?v=1750949377","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-eat-or-not-to-eat-meat-how-vegetarian-dietary-choices-influence-our-social-lives-9781538159651","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}