The Pornography of Meat?

[zakur]

New book: The Pornography of Meat (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0826414486/103-1307566-5180614) by Carol J. Adams.Is meat consumption linked to physical and sexual violence? Feminist, vegetarian, and activist Adams thinks so, and in 16 provocative essays she tells us why. These essays explore such diverse topics as the objectification of animals and women, the power of exploitative language to devalue, female bodies and body parts as advertisements for meat products, and the sexist aspects of lynching.And this from a reader:Here is a book that is so bizzarely and feverishly "leftist" that it seems to defy all reason. The book is a carnival of anti-meat, anti-porn, and anti-man rhetoric that may or may not be true. But, honestly, I can't tell you whether or not it is, because I can't wade through this text seriously. It looks SO MUCH like it was written to act as a parody, that I have a difficult time approaching it as actual scholarship.I may have to read this one just for the humor value.

[Dancing David]

Sound like the neo-pagan thing, there was no killing when women were in charge, then some man killed an animal and opression arose.

I could see trying to relate the opression of animals to the opression of human beings.

[BillyTK]

I just want to share some more pearls from that reader's review...
of course, if you're already a zealous, fervid, wild eyed supporter of these sorts of ideas, then this book will be very gratifying. girls with hairy armpits at liberal-arts colleges in vermont are going to be carrying this around like it was the Bible. [...]you know, the oppression of the masses by the ruling elite? the great future that is bound to come when the terror of property is destroyed and we all live on a big hug-a-bear commune and make arts and crafts and uncomfortable itchy hemp shirts? well, other than that, this book is an angry liberals wet dream.

look, let me speak honestly: i'm a man. i don't think of myself as a part of a patriarchy, or as an oppressor or rapist, or even as a good speller. and i do eat meat. [...] i appreciate and identify with feminists, but books like this give them a bad name...

He should be writing a book... I'd buy it!