Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Jan 2012)

Realidades e imagens do especismo : impactos da indústria (agro)pecuária e representações publicitárias de animais não-humanos sencientes

  • Anabela Santos,
  • Rui Pedro Fonseca

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23
pp. 205 – 222

Abstract

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This study aims to expose the impacts of factory farming on the environment and public health, as well as to inquire the processes of fragmentation/objectification of sentient nonhuman animals prior to the act of consumption. It also includes an analysis of advertising images in order to show how advertising representations incorporate ideologies that ensure a speciesist social order. The study mentions veganism as a more environmentally sustainable practice, more beneficial to public health and essential to contain food crises and to safeguard (non)human animals rights.

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