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Has anyone read Lierre Keith's "the vegetarian myth"?

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youretoastmildred · 04/10/2013 13:44

And does anyone want to talk about feminism and vegetarianism?

I came across a line in a novel several years ago (as a post-vegetarian omnivore in a relationship with a vegetarian man - they always bring the steak to him) and the female 1st person protagonist (the author is male - another layer of confusion) expresses a political and ethical sympathy with vegetarianism, but is concerned that it is usually women who take it up, and says something about being unhappy about giving up high quality protein to the dominant, striding around gender (I paraphrase from memory)

Anyway I have thought a lot about food ethics and female hunger

I have never materially wanted for food but I have damaged myself and caused long crushing depression by being permanently hungry. How trivial, or frivolous, or vain, is real hunger, even in the rich western world, when it is insisted upon with real material and social sanctions, by a ruling class? And how self-indulgent am I being right now?

Let's talk about how we feel about ladies eating animals.

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AutumnMadness · 04/10/2013 14:02

I think it's fairly common knowledge that food is gendered. Blokes eat stake and chips, and ladies each lettuce and cake. A bloke eating a cupcake is obviously gay. A woman chucking down shots of vodka is naturally a slag. An interesting question would be where these stereotypes come from. But they do sound like a nice justification for the men to take the best food (in the context of scarcity).

TheOrcHeadKeeper · 04/10/2013 13:54

Let's talk about how we feel about ladies eating animals

I'm a feminist. I feel nothing about it in relation to gender specifically...