Part 2 - Is meat natural?     (9 minutes)

Amy Fitzgerald, professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, pushes back on the ‘meat is natural’ narrative. She argues that while humans have eaten animals throughout history, the role that meat played in the past is very different than today..

Speaker

Amy Fitzgerald is a professor of criminology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology, and with the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. She is a founding member of the Animal and Interpersonal Abuse Research Group. Her areas of expertise include green criminology, (critical) animal studies, environmental sociology, and gender studies.

Section resources

Article: Why is meat so important in Western history and culture? A genealogical critique of biophysical and political-economic explanations (Robert Chiles and Amy Fitzgerald, 2018)

Article: The cultural hegemony of meat and the animal industrial complex (Nik Taylor and Amy Fitzgerald, 2014)