What factors influence the species of animals that culturists consume?

[crisology]

Below is a fascinating new abstract of an article on the psychological summersaults that culturati perform in order to trick themselves into believing animals are human food. Read about how meat consumers are susceptible to being conditioned to consume meat, dementalize animal capacities and repress their own feelings of guilt, etc. Here's a link to the full text: http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~heine/docs/Tooclosetohome.pdf


"In most societies, meat is valued more highly, yet tabooed more frequently, than any other type of food. Past research suggests that people avoid eating animals they consider similar to themselves, but what specific factors influence which they eat, and which they avoid? Across an array of samples from the USA, Canada, Hong Kong, and India, perceived animal intelligence and appearance emerged as the chief predictors of disgust at the thought of eating them. Furthermore, reflecting on animals' psychological attributes increased reported disgust, especially among Euro-Canadians and Euro-Americans, suggesting that these factors are more influential in shaping disgust in individualistic cultural contexts. Concordant with past research, disgust was a major predictor of willingness to eat animals, but social influence (frequency of consumption by friends and family) also emerged as a strong predictor, especially among Hong Kong Chinese and Indians, providing evidence that one's friends and family have a stronger influence on one's food choices in collectivistic cultural contexts.


Reference:


Ruby, M.B., Heine, S.J. (2012). Too close to home. Factors predicting meat avoidance. Appetite. p. 47. Retrieved online from: http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~heine/docs/Tooclosetohome.pdf

Chris

["pill popper"]

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The above link doesn't work for me.

Most studies in this area are about why among all animals some are eaten
and some are not. In the west eating a pet dog is tabu while in many
cultures not a second thought is given to it. Given the short blurb, it
appears the question here is about why even with the tabu some also eat
those animals thought close or intellegent etc.,ie. more like humans.

I saw nothing that would generalize to eating animals as a whole. Perhaps
if a tinyurl of the paper can be given and/or the one given inspected for
correct spelling, more can be understood.

[crisology]

On Monday, July 30, 2012 10:15:06 AM UTC-4, (unknown) wrote:
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The link you pasted for the insightful article doesn't work for me, either. Did you try to access it from your response or mine? Keep the link on the same line without seperating the "www" with an equal sign. When you do this and read the research related to the psychosocial pressure to consume animal products it will help to understand why many people still compromise their health for social acquisition, unnecessarily.

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> those animals thought close or intellegent etc.,ie. more like humans.

Refer to the working link to read about additional psychosocial conditions that influence culturati to consume meat, despite taboos. Some culturati also compromise digestion for social acquisition by consuming members of their biological families and other anthropoids. Humans may consume (they aren't really "eating" cholesterol, excess fat, heme iron, purines, etc. because these components are merely absorbed by humans without regulation and contribute to digestive conditions, globesity and other largely preventable diseases of affluence) meat but "eating" connotes digestion. One can "consume" anything but how well are the animal products digested? Consequently, culturists traditionally supplement meat diets with fibrous herbal remedies, laxatives, antacids, decongestants, depressants, etc. to help treat the symptoms.

Ironically, some "aphrodisiacs" or herbal remedies are thought to treat (monkey meat, rhinoceros horn, eggs, deer blood, tiger's penises, etc.) health conditions (heart disease, impotence, etc.) are actually caused by red meat and dairy intake among culturati. (Shah, 2002; Esposito, Table 2, 2006) because of the reduced blood circulation.


"Many sea-foods, but especially fish, are thought to be powerful aphrodisiacs. The association with Aphrodite, who was born at sea, lends credence to this theory. There is a large industry marketing aphrodisiacs in society even today" (Shah, 2002).

> I saw nothing that would generalize to eating animals as a whole.

There are increased health risks of zoonosis also associated with consuming other anthropoids and there's also information in the article regarding the risks of consuming meat in general: "[M]ost poisonous plants present clear signals of their toxicity (Hladik & Simmen, 1996), so as to discourage other organisms from eating them... pathogens in meat are often harder to detect than those in plants..." (Ruby, 2002).


It may help people to avoid digestive problems from diet compromises by increasing awareness of why most people find the act of killing or the sight of dead animals to be aversive in the first place. "Acting as the stomach’s gatekeeper, the emotion of disgust is proposed to have evolved to prevent humans from ingesting harmful substances, and is especially sensitive to indicators of blood, excrement, sex, death, and disease" (Ruby, 2002).

References:

Esposito, k., Giugliano, F., Sio, M. D., Carleo, D., Palo, C. D., D'armiento, M., and Giugliano, D. (2006). Dietary factors in erectile dysfunction. International Journal of Impotence Research. 370–374. Retrieved online from: http://www.nature.com/ijir/journal/v18/n4/full/3901438a.html

Ruby M.B., Heine S.J. (2012). Too close to home. Factors predicting meat avoidance. Appetite. p. 47. Retrieved online from: http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~heine/docs/Tooclosetohome.pdf

Shah, J. (2002). Erectilel dysfunction through the ages. BJU International. Volume 90, Issue 4, pages 433–441. Retrieved online from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1464-410X.2002.02911.x/full

Chris

["pill popper"]

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> The above link doesn't work for me.

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Sure, do a tinyurl contraction on all the links so I can read them. You
now add a new theory about the problems asserted with meat use generally.
In the one link that worked, the nature one, the problems were attributed
to a poor overall diet and weight problems.

I'm really only interested in the tabu question and don't want to clutter
up the discussion with other theories not related to it.