Essays about: "Vegetarianism"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 essays containing the word Vegetarianism.
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11. Jain Vegetarian Laws in the City of Palitana : Indefensible Legal Enforcement or Praiseworthy Progressive Moralism?
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Centrum för tillämpad etik; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : The city of Palitana, India, has become the first region known to legally install de facto meat bans, essentially making Palitana a vegetarian city by law. These legal steps seem to be the direct result of social pressure put on local legislators in the form of a mass hunger strike performed by local Jain monks. READ MORE
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12. Speciesism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : This essay analyses how Mary Shelley challenges speciesist thinking popular at the time of the publication of Frankenstein (1818). Speciesism is a discriminatory belief that favours the human species over any species other than human, and that is manifested in how we perceive and treat nonhuman beings. READ MORE
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13. The rebound effects of switching to vegetarianism : a microeconomic analysis of Swedish consumption behavior
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : In order to reduce our environmental footprint, policy-makers have increasingly focused on influencing individual-level consumption choices. Recent years have seen a special focus on sustainable eating patterns, in particular the environmental benefits of a vegetarian diet. READ MORE
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14. We are what we eat : investigating enabling factors for dietary change and sustainable diets in Skåne
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : The health and environmental impacts of food consumption are increasingly recognized as sustainability issues in developed countries. Therefore, promotion of sustainable diets is becoming more popular among governments and International NGOs. However, the question persists of how best to do this. READ MORE
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15. Negotiating Bodies at the Borderlands of Eating Communities : An Ethnographic Study of Oat Milk Consumers’ Relations to Health, Identity and Social Life
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : This thesis conducts a cultural analysis of the social implications of food allergies and intolerances and analyzes the interaction of individual experience and social structures by asking what it means when one chooses not to follow the normative food culture, such as with vegetarian and vegan diets, or when one physically cannot, such as in the case of food allergies and intolerances, specifically Celiac. By focusing on lifestyle and dietary eaters, that is, consumers adhering to ʻalternativeʼ diets, such as veganism or vegetarianism, and individuals diagnosed with (or affected by) food allergies and intolerance, this research analyzes how (non)participation in the mainstream eating community is both a challenge and source of how people removed from the eating community understand themselves via social interaction. READ MORE
