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The organized protection of animals and the necessity of meat in the human diet are grounded in an ideology of progress that had clearly emerged by the eighteenth century. Stone examines the changing status of animals, increased meat consumption, the nation-state's role in animal protection, and the emergence of non-governmental organizations dedicated to animal protection. This work emphasizes that animal protection and increased meat consumption occur with the expansion of world-level culture and that culture's ideology of progress. This world culture defines animal protection, including the alleviation of pain and suffering, as a necessary value and a goal of a progressive culture and its citizens. Yet, this same culture defines meat consumption, which is perceived as a dietary necessity and indicative of socio-economic development, as another characteristic of a progressive culture and its citizens. While this work examines the dual consumption and protection of animals, Stone also directs attention toward the human population growth and patterns of food production, distribution, and consumption.
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Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Population, Consumption, and Protection 5
Chapter 3 Population and Food
Chapter 4 Patterns of Food Production, Distribution, and Consumption
Chapter 5 Emergence of Animal Protection
Chapter 6 Understanding Meat Consumption and Animal Protection
Chapter 7 Animal Protection and the Ideology of Progress 16
Chapter 8 Before Animal Protection
Chapter 9 Changes in the Moral Status of Animals
Chapter 10 The Context of Public Perception
Chapter 11 The Idea of Progress
Chapter 12 Increased Meat Consumption and the Ideology of Progress 36
Chapter 13 Eating Meat
Chapter 14 Eating More Meat
Chapter 15 Meat Consumption in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 16 Explaining Increases
Chapter 17 Meat Consumption and Animal Protection
Chapter 18 Animal Protection and the Nation-State 52
Chapter 19 Early Regulation of Animal Slaughter
Chapter 20 Early Animal Protection
Chapter 21 Animal Protection in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 22 Animal Protection and Non- Governmental Organizations 79
Chapter 23 Defining NGOs
Chapter 24 Culture and NGOs
Chapter 25 Animal Protection and NGOs
Part 26 Conclusion: The Rise of Protection and Decline of Consumption 96
Chapter 27 Animal Protection as a Characteristic of Progress
Chapter 28 Meat Consumption as a Characteristic of Progress
Chapter 29 Animal Protection and World Culture
Part 30 References
Part 31 Index
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Lora Stone is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of St. Francis.
